Diabetes: Surgery

(asked on 18th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to support an increase in the use of metabolic surgery for people with Type 2 diabetes.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 26th March 2019

There has been no central assessment of the uptake of bariatric surgeries in the United Kingdom compared to other developed countries.

Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning diabetes services for their local population, including for those patients who require metabolic or bariatric surgery. It is for clinicians to decide when surgery is appropriate based on the need of the patient and in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance.

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