Guidance on Private Weight Loss: Bariatric Surgery

More patients are travelling abroad to have cheap bariatric surgery in Turkey, Egypt and other countries. If they are not entitled to NHS care, then this includes general practice.

There are some procedures that are so high risk that the LLR Bariatric Surgery service will accept referral for follow up, even if the patient did not meet the NHS eligibility requirements, and these include:

  • Mini Gastric bypass, Single anastomosis Gastric bypass or OAGB (same procedure different names)
  • Duodenal switch
  • Biliary pancreatic diversion
  • Single anastomosis duodenal switch (SADI)
  • Single anastomosis sleeve ileal bypass (SASI)
  • If you are unsure whether a patient may fall into one of these groups, please contact one of the bariatric
    surgeons for advice.

We have templated a guidance for practices to give to patients and a poster which can be displayed in public areas of the practice:

Last Updated on 27 June 2025