NHS reports increase in weight-loss surgery

The number of hospital procedures for weight-loss stomach surgery rose to 8,087 in 2010/11 – 12 per cent higher than in 2009/10 when there were 7,214, says a report from the NHS Information Centre last month.In the last decade, procedures saw a 30-fold increase from just 261 in 2000/01 to the current level – though…