Re: Why the NHS should do more bariatric surgery; how much should we do?
The prospect of 10% of Britons being candidates for bariatric surgery by 2030 must be worrying for all who work in the NHS. One wonders what the NHS's architect, Lord Beveridge, and its implementer, Aneurin Bevan, would make of this alarming development - and major drain on healthcare resources. Bevan did note in a 1945 speech the 'risk of increasing mental malady which no clinical measures could solve'. (http://www.sochealth.co.uk/national-health-service/the-sma-and-the-found...) Perhaps that is what has come to pass.
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Re: Why the NHS should do more bariatric surgery; how much should we do?
The prospect of 10% of Britons being candidates for bariatric surgery by 2030 must be worrying for all who work in the NHS. One wonders what the NHS's architect, Lord Beveridge, and its implementer, Aneurin Bevan, would make of this alarming development - and major drain on healthcare resources. Bevan did note in a 1945 speech the 'risk of increasing mental malady which no clinical measures could solve'. (http://www.sochealth.co.uk/national-health-service/the-sma-and-the-found...) Perhaps that is what has come to pass.
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