I write in response to your Official Information Act request, dated 16 July 2019.
You requested the following information:
1. The number of bariatric surgeries (gastric banding, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass surgery) done by the DHB each year, for the calendar years of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and to July 1, 2019.
2. The total cost to the DHB in providing these procedures each year, for the calendar years of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and to July 1, 2019.
3. The amount of funding the DHB receives from the Ministry of Health to perform these procedures, broken down by year, for the calendar years of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and to July 1, 2019.
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