At this year’s Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) meeting in May 2008, a new National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR), designed to capture data and report on outcomes from different types of Bariatric surgery, will be launched. The registry is a joint collaboration involving the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ALSGBI) and Dendrite Clinical Systems, with the support of the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery (AUGIS) and the British Obesity Surgery Society (BOSS).