questionText: 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) lower life expectancy and (b) higher rates of obesity and musculoskeletal conditions.
answerText: 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...
heading: Joint Replacements: Obesity