«Breaking News» Obesity surgery rise as more than 41,000 overweight patients got new hips and knees last year

A 'national obesity crisis' is being blamed for the soaring number of joint replacement surgeries (file photo) 

More than 41,000 overweight people needed joint replacement operations last year as health chiefs warn of a national crisis of obesity.

Patients going for surgery to replace knees or hips has soared six-fold in just eight years, from 6,191 in 2009-2010 to 41,761 in 2017-2018. 

Seven teenage girls were included in the number and the 575 per cent rise in such procedures is costing the NHS £200million a year.

Health officials called the findings of The Sunday Times investigation 'horrifying' and warned of a 'national obesity crisis'. 

Theresa May and Health Secretary Matt Hancock will tomorrow launch a scheme to pump an extra £20.5billion a year into the health service by 2023-2024. 

But National Obesity Forum chairman Tam Fry said that action should have been taken 'years ago' and accused successive governments of failing to act.

The investigation found that over the past year, 25,577 patients underwent hip or knee replacements in which  obesity was the main or second most important factor. 

And another 16,184 patients had joint replacements where obesity was given as a primary or secondary diagnosis. Seven of those were females aged between 15 and 19.

Women had about 8,000 more operations than men and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital says that children having hip replacement surgery was rare over the last 12 months.

But obese children are significantly more at risk of suffering a severe hip disorder that can require surgery.  

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) claimed last week that as long as obesity is not recognised as a disease, rates are unlikely to go down.

Health bosses have warned that successive governments have failed to address the nation's obesity issues 

A third of primary school leavers are overweight or obese and two in three are overweight or obese in adulthood.

Joint replacement surgery costs about £5,000 and there were 41,761 obesity-related replacement surgeries in 2017-18, meaning the annual cost to the NHS is higher than £200million.

British Obesity Society chairwoman Jane DeVille-Almond  says parents must reduce sugar in their children's diets.

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth said that teenagers undergoing replacement surgery should 'send shock waves' through the government.

Public Health England says that obesity is 'having a serious impact both on the NHS and on individuals' health'.

The body says it is responding by working with the food industry to offer healthier diets.   

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A ‘national obesity crisis’ is being blamed for the soaring number of joint replacement surgeries (file photo) 

More than 41,000 overweight people needed joint replacement operations last year as health chiefs warn of a national crisis of obesity.
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