Stomach surgery sees swell in figures The numbers of patients undergoing weight-loss stomach surgery has risen hugely in just 12 months, according t

And private providers such as Spire Healthcare, who do not offer weight-loss procedures to NHS patients, also witnessed a considerably greater volume, reporting a 58% overall rise in surgery. Numbers for the over-60s age group having gastric banding or bypass surgery at Spire’s 25 UK hospitals doubled in size. Yet whilst female patients still accounted…