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Provide obese people with specialist help in their locality - it's their right

Submitted on Tuesday 3rd May 2016

Published on Wednesday 4th May 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 4th November 2016

Signatures: 149

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Provide obese people with specialist help in their locality - it's their right

Petition Details

NHS guidelines say obese patients should have access to dedicated centres, staffed by experts in weight loss, exercise, and talking therapies, to help them reverse their weight gain prior to bariatric surgery. But this can be a postcode lottery.

Additional Information

Obesity is often about much more than “just eat less”, otherwise millions of people would have just taken that advice. Guidelines recommend that prior to offering bariatric surgery (Tier 4) the NHS should provide help through dedicated centres staffed by experts in weight loss, exercise, and talking therapies, to help obese patients lose weight (Tier 3). This petition calls for more Tier 3 centres so all obese patients are able to access Tier 3 as a right.


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