Aftercare
We believe aftercare is key to achieving weight loss success, which is why we offer a two-year aftercare package for all our bariatric surgery patients.
Surgeon led follow ups for 2 years *
Dietetic appointments *
Band fills *
Treatment of complications †
* for 2 years
† for 14 days post op
Programme
Two-year aftercare package, including regular nurse, dietitian and surgeon review as standard, so you will be fully supported through your weight loss journey.
Dietetic advice helps patients:
- Progress through the different dietary stages after weight loss surgery.
- Helps patient achieve maximal weight and fat loss, without loss of muscle mass
- Avoid vitamin or mineral deficiency
- Monitor their annual vitamin and mineral blood tests
- Establish good dietary habits and eating behaviour, for the long-term
We offer a 14-day complication cover, in the unlikely event of suffering a complication from the surgery. The cost of the complication is fully covered, so you can focus on getting better.
Benefits
Research presented at obesity week showed that those patients who attended regular follow-ups saw greater improvements or remission of comorbidities.
The study looked at the outcome of more than 51,000 patients. Some patients had three follow-up visits, at three, six and 12 months after their weight loss surgery. The remaining patients attended either two or one follow-up visits.
After one year, 62.3% of patients who had attended three follow-up visits saw their type 2 diabetes go into remission. However, the remission rate in the patients that only attend one or two times was at a rate of 57.5%. The rate of improvement in diabetes was once again better for those who had three visits compared to those who attend only one or two (74.6% vs 68.9%). The three-follow-up group also had a greater improvement in high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
