Hi All,
Just curious, did your case (request for wls) have to go before the Multi-disciplinary team?
I've read many post and I never see it meantioned.
The multidisciplinary team for weight loss surgery consists of:
all surgeons on the team, all dieticians, consultant anaesthetist for the bariatric surgery, consultant endocrinologists, consultant psychiatrist and psychologist on the team and any more junior staff involved.
For each patient, once all their assessments have been done, their case is discussed at a meeting of the whole team involved.
The notes and assessments for that patient are discussed. Any doubts or concerns about whether to grant surgery or not, depending on any health or psychological issues, are discussed and after fully discussing the patient and whether surgery should be done, a decision is made to do surgery or not. If the psychologist or psychiatrist, for example, is unsure the patient will not be able to cope after surgery and may have problems, further steps will be taken to ensure some sort of counselling is in place before surgery.
If surgery for another reason is not decided to go ahead, perhaps other investigations should be done if the MDT agrees at the meeting.
No patient is ever given surgery for weight loss without the whole team agreeing.
Mostly these MDT meetings are held weekly.
