questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing the use of body mass index thresholds to determine eligibility for joint replacement surgery.
answerText: The Department has made no specific assessment of the potential merits of removing the use of body mass index (BMI) thresholds to determine eligibility for joint replacement surgery. It is the responsibility of individual integrated care boards to determi...
heading: Joint Replacements: Surgery