Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 77103
Joint Replacements: Obesity
Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 13 October 2025
Question
Vicky Foxcroft
Labour — Lewisham North
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients with a high body mass index are able to access joint replacement surgery in line with NICE guidelines.
Answer
Karin SmythThe 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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