Insurers 'should fund weight loss surgery'

Private medical insurers should offer gastric banding and gastric bypass operations to morbidly obese patients, the private hospital group Spire Healthcare has stated.

The comments come after the Department of Health (DH) announced that it would be calling for a national movement to tackle the growing problem of obesity.

Dr Jean-Jacques de Gorter, Spire's clinical services director, has written to health insurance providers urging them to cover weight loss surgery on their private medical insurance (PMI) policies. Click here for full article.