Gastric Band Surgery

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Gateway Health’s aftercare programme is clinically proven to produce market leading weight loss results. The all encompassing aftercare package is the “Gold Standard”.
Roger Ackroyd Bariatric Surgeon

We offer internationally proven medical and surgical weight loss treatments including gastric band surgery and gastric balloon non surgical treatment. To help you reduce and control your weight, our weight loss programme is designed to help you to maintain any weight loss you achieve through either the gastric balloon programme, gastric band surgery, gastric bypass surgery procedures.

Gateway Health believe all patients should be treated with dignity and respect, our clinics provide a safe haven providing sensitive and compassionate care. Together we achieve life transforming results.

The difference is the Gateway Health Gastric Band and Gastric Balloon Weight Loss Surgery Aftercare Programme.

We offer internationally proven medical and surgical weight loss treatments including gastric band surgery and gastric balloon non surgical treatment. To help you reduce and control your weight, our weight loss programme is designed to help you to maintain any weight loss you achieve through either the gastric balloon programme, gastric band surgery, gastric bypass surgery procedures.

Gateway Health weight loss programme

Gateway Health Ltd have devised and now deliver the most successful weight loss programme that has ever been used in conjunction with both the Gastric balloon and Gastric band. The programme lasts for a minimum of 12 months and consists of both educational elements with lifestyle change adaptation.

The programmes although similar in nature are also specific to both procedures, with emphasis on giving the patient the knowledge and help they require to make long term changes to their lifestyle which lead to weight loss. Once a patient has reached their weight loss/ body shape goal then weight stabilisation is achieve through adaptation of principles learnt during the programme.

Both the Gastric band and the Gastric balloon should be seen as physical tools only, neither is the definitive answer to long term weight stability. Both the gastric band and the gastric balloon are very powerful tools that if used correctly can help patients to achieve their long term weight goals and assist them in ensuring a healthy weight profile in the future. The decision as to which procedure (gastric band or gastric balloon) is correct for an individual should be made by the individual, after consultation with a specialist who has the training and education to be able to help them make that choice. Gateway Health believe that the best people to do this assessment, are specially trained nurses. Nurses trained in all aspects of care of patients undergoing either gastric band or gastric balloon are able to assess the individuals suitability for either gastric banding or gastric balloon based on information given by the patient and an in depth interview which usually lasts approximately an hour.

After either gastric banding or gastric balloon, patients are looked after by their own specialist nurse who is able to help them through out the initial post procedure period and then on to the programme that is most suitable to them. Educational information on both the gastric band and gastric balloon is given before the procedure of choice and afterwards. It is delivered in easily understood language and in a format that allows patients to study it at their convenience. Behavioural, emotional and dietary input is essential to give the individual the knowledge they will need to take them forward successfully.

Find out more about the Gastric Band Surgery with Gateway Health

Having Gastric Band surgery with Gateway Health means you benefit from an unrivalled team of gastric band specialists. Our gastric band surgeons are drawn from the most experienced surgeons in the UK. With gatewayhealth weight loss clinics throughout the UK you are never far from your gastric band aftercare team. Even if you had your gastric band fitted overseas or another clinic in the UK, you are still welcome to join the gateway health gastric band aftercare support programme for gastric band adjustment and lifestyle support and advise.

Gastric Band

Gastric band surgery is becoming increasingly popular, either as a last resort for the morbidly obese or to provide a quicker way to lose weight for those who are prepared to undergo gastric band surgery.

The gastric band procedure, which reduces the amount of room for food in the stomach, has been in use since the mid-1980s and the number of gastric band operations is increasing by approximately 10% each year.

The average weight loss for people having a gastric band is up to 50% of their excess weight in the two years, after they have a gastric band fitted people almost immediately cut the risk of diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure.

Benefits of a Gastric Band

  • The Gastric Band has a very high success rate for short
    and long term weight loss
  • Gastric band surgery can improve health problems associated with obesity
  • Gastric Band surgery does not involve cutting or stapling the stomach
  • Gastric Band surgery is reversible
  • Gastric Bands are adjustable to assist your weight loss

Gastric Band patient information
It is important that we all see the use of the gastric band in weight loss not just as an operation but as a process of care by a team which commences before the gastric band is placed and continues afterwards.

Gastric Band – Team approach
There must be a partnership between yourself and the team. Success will only occur if both partners contribute. The team must fulfil their role, by placing the band correctly, expert follow up and advice must be given in a way that you can understand. You in turn must be committed to following the rules regarding eating, exercise and activity, and keep in contact with the team looking after you.

Commitment to Gastric Band Surgery
You should not consider having a gastric band procedure unless you are totally committed to fulfilling your part of the partnership.

You will be given a separate diet sheet which has rules for eating post procedure. The essence of these rules are;

A maximum of 3 small good quality meals per day.

No snacks between meals.

Each meal has to be solid food.

There should be minimal liquid calories per day, from tea coffee and mineral water etc.

You must eat foods that have good protein content, such as meats, egg dishes, fish, beans and lentils and food that have a high fibre content, such as breakfast cereals, fruit and vegetables.

Limit foods that are high in fat and simple sugars.

Most importantly you learn to eat slowly and a very small volume of food at each meal.

Gastric Band and you
You must also learn to increase your energy output. There must be an increase in activities such as walking and swimming.

Gastric Band – maintaining your weight loss
The primary focus of the gastric band effect is on the amount of weight that is lost. We expect that on average people who have the procedure will lose between 1/2 and 2/3 of their excess weight in 1 – 2 years post procedure. This is an average, and it will depend on the individual, some more and some less. Because we have control over the gastric restriction, we have the confidence that we can achieve more weight loss without interfering with the quality of life. We don’t want to have a severe restriction on normal living patterns.

Gastric band

Gastric band surgery is becoming increasingly popular, either as a last resort for the morbidly obese or to provide a quicker way to lose weight for those who are prepared to undergo gastric band surgery.

The gastric band procedure, which reduces the amount of room for food in the stomach, has been in use since the mid-1980s and the number of gastric band operations is increasing by approximately 10% each year.

The average weight loss for people having a gastric band is up to 50% of their excess weight in the two years, after they have a gastric band fitted people almost immediately cut the risk of diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure.

Benefits of a Gastric Band
  • The Gastric Band has a very high success rate for short and long term weight loss
  • Gastric band surgery can improve health problems associated with obesity
  • Gastric Band surgery does not involve cutting or stapling the stomach
  • Gastric Band surgery is reversible
  • Gastric Bands are adjustable to assist your weight loss

Gastric Band patient information

t is important that we all see the use of the gastric band in weight loss not just as an operation but as a process of care by a team which commences before the gastric band is placed and continues afterwards.

Gastric Band - Team approach
There must be a partnership between yourself and the team. Success will only occur if both partners contribute. The team must fulfil their role, by placing the band correctly, expert follow up and advice must be given in a way that you can understand. You in turn must be committed to following the rules regarding eating, exercise and activity, and keep in contact with the team looking after you.

Commitment to Gastric Band Surgery

You should not consider having a gastric band procedure unless you are totally committed to fulfilling your part of the partnership.

You will be given a separate diet sheet which has rules for eating post procedure. The essence of these rules are;
  • A maximum of 3 small good quality meals per day.
  • No snacks between meals.
  • Each meal has to be solid food.
  • There should be minimal liquid calories per day, from tea coffee and mineral water etc.
  • You must eat foods that have good protein content, such as meats, egg dishes, fish, beans and lentils and food that have a high fibre content, such as breakfast cereals, fruit and vegetables.
  • Limit foods that are high in fat and simple sugars.
  • Most importantly you learn to eat slowly and a very small volume of food at each meal.


Gastric Band and you You must also learn to increase your energy output. There must be an increase in activities such as walking and swimming.

Gastric Band - maintaining your weight loss
The primary focus of the gastric band effect is on the amount of weight that is lost. We expect that on average people who have the procedure will lose between 1/2 and 2/3 of their excess weight in 1 – 2 years post procedure. This is an average, and it will depend on the individual, some more and some less. Because we have control over the gastric restriction, we have the confidence that we can achieve more weight loss without interfering with the quality of life. We don't want to have a severe restriction on normal living patterns.
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