{"id":3726,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/bariatricsurgery\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:03:18","slug":"bariatricsurgery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/surgery\/bariatricsurgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bariatric Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no direct referral into the bariatric surgical service.&nbsp; All patients who wish to be considered for bariatric surgery are required to successfully complete the Core 12 week Tier 3 programme in the weight management service. The weight management service can then refer patients to the surgical service. Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the bariatric service can be found on the Bariatric (Weight Loss) Surgery Service pages on the NHS Lothian Intranet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Referral Guidelines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/refhelp\/guidelines\/WeightManagementServiceAdult\">Please see weight Management Service for referral guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"\/refhelp\/list-resources-and-links\/?post_id=3726\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no direct referral into the bariatric surgical service.&nbsp; All patients who wish to be considered for bariatric surgery are required to successfully complete the Core 12 week Tier 3 programme in the weight management service. The weight management service can then refer patients to the surgical service. Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659],"class_list":["post-3726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-bariatricsurgery"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/surgery\/bariatricsurgery\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bariatric Surgery<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"There is no direct referral into the bariatric surgical service.&nbsp; All patients who wish to be considered for bariatric surgery are required to successfully complete the Core 12 week Tier 3 programme in the weight management service. The weight management service can then refer patients to the surgical service. Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20240,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3726\/revisions\/20240"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}