Bariatric surgical service for the treatment of people with severe obesity
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE clinical guidelines through commissioning, and is a resource to help health professionals in England to commission an effective bariatric surgical service for the treatment of people with severe obesity.
This commissioning guide should be read in conjunction with the following NICE guidance:
The clinical guideline covers clinical and cost effectiveness in detail and underpins the content of this guide.
The guide:
- makes the case for commissioning a bariatric surgical service
- specifies service requirements
- helps you determine local service levels
- helps you ensure corporate and quality assurance.
The full text of this commissioning guide can be downloaded or accessed from the navigation menu on the right hand side of the screen. Download the openly available commissioning and benchmarking tool, there is no need to register.
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December 2007
This page was last updated: 04 January 2011
- Bariatric surgical service
- Commissioning a bariatric surgical service for the treatment of people with severe obesity
- Specifying a bariatric surgical service for the treatment of people with severe obesity
- Determining local service levels for a bariatric surgical service for the treatment of people with severe obesity
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning and benchmarking tool
- Ensuring corporate and quality assurance
