Question follow-through · 12117
Joint Replacements: Obesity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of using BMI threshold criteria for joint replacement surgery and the Government's commitment to reducing health inequalities in regions with (a) lo
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of using BMI threshold criteria for joint replacement surgery and the Government's commitment to reducing health inequalities in regions with (a) lo
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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29 Jun 2026
Answer published
It is the responsibility of individual integrated care boards to determine policies for their local area, including that of Body Mass Index (BMI) threshold criteria for joint replacement surgery. As with all surgery, BMI should be considered as one part o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy: Screening
11 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what timetable the UK National Screening Committee is working to for the EquipoISE project; and whether the inclusion of metachromatic leukodystrophy in a multi-condition in-service evaluation has