Weight Management
Active MK Exercise Referral Scheme (AMKERS)
AMKERS is offered at a number of gyms across Milton Keynes, If you have been inactive for a long time or have pre-existing medical condition and are worried about exercising, AMKERS can help. This service is GP referral only.
One You Couch to 5K: Mobile App
The Couch to 5K app has been designed to get you off the couch and running in just 9 weeks. Grab your trainers, download the app and follow the step-by-step instructions.
Download from: play.google.com
Download from: itunes.apple.com
Choose You
Free weight loss support. The Choose You programme has been designed to help you make gradual changes, eating more healthily, becoming more active, developing new habits and experiencing improved wellbeing. These changes will help you stay healthy into the future.
Website: chooseyou.co.uk/healthy-weight/
Slimming World
You’ll find delicious recipe and menu ideas at your local group, along with all the help you need to get started and reach your target weight.
Website: www.slimmingworld.co.uk
One You Easy Meals: Mobile App
The free Easy Meals app is a great way to eat foods that are healthier for you. You’ll find delicious, easy meal ideas to help get you going if you’re ever short of inspiration.
Download from: play.google.com
Download from: itunes.apple.com
Love Exploring App
Want to be more active but finding it hard to get the motivation?
MK Council have licenced a free App across Milton Keynes to help with that!
The App is called ‘Love Exploring’ and it uses augmented reality games to create a fun and educational way of getting MK residents and visitors to explore the parks, cultural locations and leisure routes across the city. The app is aimed toward both children and young people with games such as Dinosaur Safari, Space Walk and Mega Mini Beasts, as well as adults and older residents with Mindfulness trails and cultural routes of Milton Keynes.
Click the link below to watch the Mega Mini Beasts in action and head to your app store to download the app and get moving!
Weight Watchers
Meetings, Online or a little bit of both. They’ve got options and support, whatever your lifestyle.
Website: www.weightwatchers.com
Weight loss Injections
We are aware of the publicity regarding weight loss injections and the possibility of these being prescribed in primary care. Unfortunately, arrangements for this have not yet been agreed in BLMK and therefore we are not currently able to prescribe weight loss injections for obesity in primary care.
What you need to know!
In the first two years entry criteria have been set by NHS England to allow safe entry of this repurposed medicine into the health system.
- We will provide an update as soon as more information becomes available.
- When we get further information about referral to service or commissioned to offer this service, we will offer suitable appointments to our patients.
‼️If we are asked/commissioned/advised to offer this service/refer to specialist clinics, the criteria to qualify is very strict‼️
Calculations say that there will be 220,000 patients UK wide that will qualify, please see eligibility criteria below:
A BMI of 40 kg/m2 or higher (37.5 kg/m2 for people from South Asian, Chinese, other Asian, Middle Eastern, Black African or African-Caribbean ethnic backgrounds) and at least four of these additional conditions, which will already have been diagnosed by your GP or another medical professional:
- Hypertension
- Dyslipidaemia
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD)
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus
We are waiting to hear more from BLMK ICB about how the service would be offered.
If it is agreed that Tirzepatide is the right choice you will also be required to agree to engage with behavioural support and wraparound care.
Thank you for your patience, understanding and for waiting for official updates before contacting us about this medication.
Page created: 22 July 2024