Provide obese people with specialist help in their locality - it's their right

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What the petition asks

NHS guidelines say obese patients should have access to dedicated centres, staffed by experts in weight loss, exercise, and talking therapies, to help them reverse their weight gain prior to bariatric surgery. But this can be a postcode lottery.

Obesity is often about much more than “just eat less”, otherwise millions of people would have just taken that advice. Guidelines recommend that prior to offering bariatric surgery (Tier 4) the NHS should provide help through dedicated centres staffed by experts in weight loss, exercise, and talking therapies, to help obese patients lose weight (Tier 3). This petition calls for more Tier 3 centres so all obese patients are able to access Tier 3 as a right.

Timeline

4 May 2016	Petition opened for signatures
4 Nov 2016	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 149

Status Closed

Opened 4 May 2016

Closed 4 Nov 2016

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