Stomach Stapling England

The WeightMatters Practice is an established weight loss and weight management clinic with over 13 years experience. It is the UK’s leading therapy centre for weight, food, eating and health issues, specialising in weight loss counselling, weight loss therapy and treatment for psychological issues pertaining to obesity and eating disorders. WeightMatters is lead by their Clinical Director James Lamper, a psychotherapist who set up the practice. Their team now includes 20+ associates in the fields of psychotherapy, counselling, dietetics, nutritional therapy and psychiatry. The surgical lead for our team is Mr Sanjay Purkayastha, a clinically and academically, internationally renowned bariatric surgeon. His team of clinicians, put together over the last decade leads the way in minimally invasive bariatric techniques, enhanced recovery programmes and digital support for patients second to none in bariatric surgery. Personalised approaches to patient care and the integration of latest best evidence are the cornerstones of this surgical practice. Our partnership is based on shared values of clinical excellence, patient care and optimal outcomes of health and wellbeing. Working together we can deliver the ultimate package of surgical, medical, psychological and nutritional support.

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Mr Bruno Sgromo is the Lead Consultant Bariatric Surgeon for the Oxford Bariatric Service & Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon for the Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom. He earned his MD in Italy in 1998 and completed his general and laparoscopic surgery training in Italy and the Netherlands. He joined the Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery in Oxford in 2007 as Senior Clinical Fellow and was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon in 2009. Mr Sgromo has been performing weight loss surgery since 2004, with a particular focus on gastric bypasses and revisional bariatric surgery. He specialises in laparoscopic gastric band insertion, endoscopic gastric balloon insertion, laparoscopic roux-en-Y gastric by-pass, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and revisional bariatric surgery. To date, Mr Sgromo has performed over 500 key hole surgical procedures for weight loss. Despite working on a very high risk patient group, he has achieved a 0% mortality rate and anastomotic leak rate well below the national average. As well as weight loss surgery, Mr Sgromo is a highly proficient oesophageal & stomach cancer surgeon, and also has a specialist interest in anti-reflux procedures such as laparoscopic Nissen & toupet fundoplications.