Pre-Surgery Assessment
If you meet the criteria listed in our referral section, we will offer you a place in our assessment programme, the goals of which are to:
- Obtain baseline measurements and to agree the individual targets for your treatment
- Assess your current medical health, including endocrine status and diseases that are influenced by your obesity as well as your fitness to undergo surgery
- Establish a rapport between you and the Southwest Bariatric Surgery team - we are entering a partnership for your treatment for a long time!
- Ensure you understand the implications of surgery fully and are willing to co-operate with the treatment plan
The assessment phase generally takes one month to complete and providing everything is in order, surgery is then generally booked for approximately one month later. We urge you to make contact with the patient support group before your operation and we will also make any other arrangements needed to confirm your operation date, including any further tests recommended by the team and a pre-admission assessment.
If we do not consider you suitable for surgery in our programme, we will advise you of other treatment paths you may wish to follow.