HCP & Media Area

For Health Care Professionals

Welcome to WLSinfo - feel free to browse the content sections of the website. At the moment health weight loss surgery information for health care professionalscare professionals (who have not had or are considering surgery) are not permitted as members of the forums. This maybe reviewed in the future.

Please feel feel free to contact us for advice or information gained from our experience of working with patients. Please contact us modlist@wlsinfo.org.uk

Alternatively leave a message on our helpline on 0151-222-4737

Members of the team have extensive experience in facilitating support groups, acting as speakers and involvement in consultations re service changes. Our membership offers a vast rapidly accesssed source of patient consultation and feedback.


For Media Professionals

If you require assistance please do not hesitate to contact the team modlist@wlsinfo.org.uk

Alternatively contact the helpline on 0151-222-4737 (email will bring a quicker response).

Please do not join the forums and do not under any circumstance post on the site.

We have assisted the media on countless occasions with a variety of requests from background information, providing statements, soundbites, interviews and subjects for case histories. The charity is pleased to help with bona fide media requests made through the above channels.



Latest developments and articles

Experiences of weight loss surgery: summary report by Dr Karen Throsby

The gastric band you tighten by computer

BBC article: Speed of eating 'key to obesity'

StomaphyX - An incision free gastric bypass revision procedure

Genetics and obesity an article by Dr Alex Blakemore