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10/18/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

U.K. health care system may deny surgery to smokers and the obese

A new plan by the Hertfordshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) of the U.K.’s national health care system, the NHS, will deny surgery to patients who are obese and those who smoke. Not surprisingly, the news is being met with some heated debate on the part of patients as well as doctors. The new plan would […]

09/22/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

NHS refusing services to smokers, obese patients until they go to health boot camp for six months

Obese people, as well as smokers, will be refused of services by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) until they go to a health boot camp for six months to try and lose weight, according to a Daily Mail report. These patients will be referred to the health optimization program of the NHS and […]

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