Usually to qualify for surgery, patients need to have a BMI of over 40 if they have no illnesses related to their obesity or over 35 if they have got obesity related illnesses. Those criteria aren't hard and fast if you are a private patient occasionally we will go a bit lower for individual patience with the right circumstances but for NHS patience often the criteria is set much higher by their primary care trust and you may not be eligible for funding at that level.
Answers provided by Guy Slater & Shaw
Somers, Streamline Surgical consultants
