Assessing economic investment required to scale up bariatric surgery capacity in England: a health economic modelling analysis.

ABSTRACT: To quantify the economic investment required to increase bariatric surgery (BaS) capacity in National Health Service (NHS) England considering the growing obesity prevalence and low provision of BaS in England despite its high clinical effectiveness. Data were included for the patients with obesity who were eligible for BaS. We used a decision-tree approach including four distinct steps of the patient pathway to capture all associated resource use. We estimated total costs according to the current capacity (current scenario) and three BaS scaling up strategies over a time horizon of 20 years (projected scenario): maximising NHS capacity (strategy 1), maximising NHS and private sector capacity (strategy 2) and adding infrastructure to NHS capacity to cover the entire prevalent and incident

SUBMITTER: Baker-Knight J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11293411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature