Reading Time: 4 minutes Gastric band surgery is proven to be an extremely safe procedure, with mortality rates reported to be around 0.5%. It’s a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure and patients can almost always return home on the same day.
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a lot of discussion about prediabetes – what it is, is it a disease at all and what should people do about it.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Diabetes is a subject which continues to pop up frequently in the news. It’s no secret that diabetes is hugely linked to obesity, and figures
Reading Time: 2 minutes An alarming story from the BBC was published today. The headline ‘My doctor flew off when cosmetic surgery went wrong’ sounds dramatic and scary, but
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is widely argued that weight loss surgery will pay for itself in 2 to 3 years, so as the problem gets bigger, why is it becoming less and less likely that you will be eligible for weight loss surgery on the NHS?
Reading Time: < 1 minute A common reason people approach Healthier Weight to lose weight is because they wish to start a family. A lot of the time they are
Reading Time: < 1 minute Getting a weight loss procedure through the NHS is difficult, as anyone who has tried will know. In this difficult political and financial climate, it’s
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we help people make decisions about whether or not they should have weight loss surgery we are doing so with a long term perspective.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many patients experience hair loss after weight loss surgery. In most cases this tends to be mild and short-lived, but is some cases the loss
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps you read in the news today about Simon Cowell losing a lot of weight. It was a positive story about how he’d made changes