About Us

The Kingston Healthy Weight Centre (KHWC) is a Multidisciplinary Team that aims to provide comprehensive support to achieve weight loss, improve overall health and reduce obesity- related complications.

These conditions include diabetes, obstructive sleep apnoea and high blood pressure.

We offer highly specialised weight loss interventions:

  • weight loss surgery (also known as ‘bariatric’ or ‘metabolic’ surgery)
  • weight loss medicines

We only recommend them for use with people who are significantly overweight and have been unable to lose weight or maintain weight loss with other weight loss interventions.

To been seen by the KHWC, you must be referred by your GP or other hospital doctor.

Please note there is currently a national shortage of weight loss injections. If your referral to KHWC is accepted, we will invite you for an initial assessment appointment and, if the multidisciplinary team feel that weight loss injections would be appropriate for you, we will place you on a waiting list. We are currently not able to prescribe weight loss injections. If the situation changes, we will update this information. (14 September 2024)

 

  • Patients with a BMI of 40Kg/m2 or over OR with a BMI of 35-40 kg/m2 with one or more related conditions.
  • Patients with a BMI over 30 kg/m2 with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus of less than 10 years can be referred to the service.
  • Patients with a South Asian, Chinese, other Asian, Middle Eastern, Black African, or African-Caribbean family background have a lower BMI threshold by 2.5kg/m2.

  • Patients < 18 years old
  • Patients planning a pregnancy in the next 2 years, currently pregnant or breastfeeding.
  • Patients with a severe and / or enduring mental health difficulty that are not assessed or adequately managed (including self-harm or suicide in the past 12 months).
  • Patients with an eating difficulty to the degree of an eating disorder.
  • Patients diagnosed with a malignancy <24 months prior or receiving treatment for a malignancy.
  • Patients receiving palliative or end of life care.
  • Patients unfit for General Anaesthesia. 

More information

See more information on the Kingston Healthy Weight Centre.

See more information on preparing for weight loss injections.