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CCG 1147 Does the CCG employ a maximum BMI restriction on any type of surgery or procedure

Request 1

Do you, or have you at any point since 2010, employed a maximum BMI limit above which someone is not allowed to have a procedure? (please specific whether still in force and, if not, when it was introduced and ended).

 

Response 1

Yes.

Request 2

What is the BMI limit?

 

Response 2

35.

Request 3

To which procedures does this apply (for example, routine hip and knee surgery, breast reduction, cataract removal)- please list all types of procedure where a BMI limit is in force.

 

Response 3

Hip and knee replacement.

Request 4

How many people have been stopped from having a procedure because their BMI was too high since the restriction came into force? Please also break this information down by calendar year.

 

Response 4

This information is not yet available to the CCG.