World Obesity Day Is Changing
On the 11th of October every year is World Obesity Day. A day that was created to raise awareness about obesity-related issues such as weight stigma (2018), investing in obesity treatment (2017) and childhood obesity (2016). But World Obesity Day 2019 has a new...
RACGP Obesity Prevention & Management Position Statement
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) continually release position statements on topics such as clinical/practice management and health and environmental systems. These reflect the RACGps core values and act as an information base for GPs in...
Bariatric Surgery and Type 2 Diabetes TreatmentÂ
An estimated 2 million Australians are currently at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes causes blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than normal (hyperglycemia). Having type 2 diabetes means your body does...
Barriers to Accessing Treatment for Obesity
Dr Georgia Rigas, one of our resident GP’s and a very experienced bariatric practitioner, recently attended the Obesity Summit Australia 2018. Dr Rigas is Chair of the RACGP Obesity Management Specific Interests network and represented Australia’s GP’s at the summit....
Bariatric Centre of Excellence in Sydney – Upper GI Surgery
In April Upper GI Surgery was awarded the Bariatric Centre of Excellence accreditation by the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC).This is a renewal of our original accreditation that we achieved in 2015. Our lead surgeon A/Prof Michael Talbot and another of our surgeons...
Australians Using Superannuation to Fund Bariatric Surgery
Although Medicare as a public health system is effective, like any other system in the world it also has drawbacks. Unfortunately bariatric surgery is currently one of those areas that Medicare appears to be falling behind in when it comes down to the current demand...