Obesity: Children
(asked on 19th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of children who would have been eligible under the adult criteria for bariatric surgery in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 22nd January 2015
No estimate has been made centrally. The criteria for bariatric surgery for children are different to those applied to adults. Weight loss surgery should only be considered to treat obese children in exceptional circumstances and only if the child is physiologically mature.