United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 77102
Joint Replacements: Obesity
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15 September 2025
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13 October 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of body mass index criteria as a means to accessing treatment such as joint replacement surgery.
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15 September 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of body mass index criteria as a means to accessing treatment such as joint replacement surgery.
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13 October 2025
Answer
The Department has made no specific assessment of this criterion alone.As with all surgery, body mass index would be considered as part of a holistic, personalised, perioperative evaluation of the risks versus the clinical need for joint replacement surge...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-09-15/77102
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1835005
- uk · wq-1835005 · source updated 13 October 2025