Question follow-through · 77102
Joint Replacements: Obesity
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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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
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.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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