- Joint Discrimination Against Smokers And The Overweight
- Published: 2010-12-20 Views:117 reads
A primary care trust (PCT) in Britain is aiming to save money by refusing smokers non-life threatening elective surgery - including hip and knee operations - unless they have taken a 12-week smoking cessation course offered by the National Health Service Stop Smoking Service, according to a story by Stephen Adams for the Electronic Telegraph.
The PCT is discriminating also against those people deemed to be seriously overweight, who are required to go on a 12-week NHS weight loss program.
There was no mention of other groups, so presumably treatment for all other people will not be delayed.
A spokesperson for NHS Kent was said to have confirmed the measures were designed to curb a potential overspend of up to £10 million, or one per cent of its budget, by April 2011.
"They are part of a range of measures to ease the financial pressures that we are experiencing," she said.
Dr John Allingham, medical secretary of Kent Local Medical Committee, told the GPs' magazine, Pulse, that doctors were strongly opposed to the orders. "It's a way of extending the waiting times," he said.
Source from: Tobacco Reporter
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