here. An NHS South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group spokesman said: "We are unable to comment on individual patients, but we can confirm that the CCG bases its criteria for a number of surgical procedures on the best available scientific evidence."This enables us to focus our resources on people who are most likely to benefit from an intervention, and to avoid interventions when they are likely to be ineffective, or worse still dangerous."We recognise that there are occasionally situations that do not fit the usual criteria, and individual funding requests can be made for such exceptional situations."In cases where BMI is an inappropriate way to judge whether an individual has reached optimum lean body weight, alternative validated.
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