MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS TREATMENT
What We Do
Working together, our team will support you to achieve your goals throughout your weight loss journey.
The challenges of losing weight are multi-factorial and with the commitment of our three NHS qualified consultants, each with clinical expertise, we will help you to overcome these challenges and take control of your weight.
Our consultant led approach incorporates lifestyle adjustments, psychological strategies and the latest clinically proven medical treatments.
We will provide you with an individually tailored medical assessment, medication, dietary optimisation and psychological support to help you attain and maintain the weight loss goal you aspire to.
Take Control of Your Health
The health benefits of weight loss are far-reaching.
Losing weight is clinically proven to improve:
• Type 2 diabetes
• High Blood Pressure
• High cholesterol
• Obstructive sleep apnoea
• Fertility
• Mobility issues
• Chronic Pain & Arthritis
• Risk of certain types of cancer
Consultant Led Services
Consultant Led, Comprehensive, Multi-disciplinary and Individualised Weight Loss.
Our approach to weight loss will support you to achieve your goals by incorporating the latest medical interventions with psychologic and nutrition support.
Weight Loss Medication Services
Cutting Edge, Evidence Based Weight Loss Medications.
Prof. Joseph, our experienced Consultant Physician will undertake a comprehensive medical consultation including a detailed assessment of your current health and past medical history. This will incorporate an assessment of your suitability for the use of available weight loss medications.
Nutrition Services
We will support you to make changes to your eating habits to optimise your nutritional intake to enhance your weight loss opportunity and improve your diet quality to optimise your health. Everyone has different food preferences and reasons for eating, this can be based on taste, habits, family and friends influences and social circumstances. Our dietitian will work with you to choose the nutrition plan which best suits your needs and lifestyle.
Psychology Services
The relationship of stress, mental health and eating behaviours to weight is an important factor that can be addressed with psychological support. Our psychotherapist will offer an in-depth session to look at strategies including mindful eating skills training that will help you make positive changes in order to achieve your goals and to reduce the risk of relapse.
Kick Start Your Weight Loss Journey
This 3 month program starts with a medical assessment and suitability for Medical therapy. This is complemented by individualised dietary optimisation and psychological support to get you started on your weight loss journey.
The contact with the team is intensive in this three month period with regular monitoring of progress and wellbeing to ensure your weight loss is achieved in a sustainable and supported structure.
Frequently Asked Questions
The cost for the 3-month Kick- start programme is £400 per month. You do have to sign up for
the 3-month period, so the total cost is £1,200. Payment options can be
discussed during the initial consultation process.
Yes, providing you are willing to travel for a
consultation. We can do our consultations via video call or telephone, but we
will need to see you in person to make an assessment for medical therapy and to collect medication from the pharmacy at Spire
Liverpool. The initial 3-month program includes appointments with the team
and medication for 3 months.
The medications used in the programme are perfectly safe and widely available on the NHS, but you can only get them prescribed on the NHS if you suffer certain medical conditions. The consultants on the programme all work within the NHS and are fully qualified experts in this area.
We conduct consultations to ensure that you meet the relevant criteria to be able to take these clinically proven medical treatments. At no point would we provide medication that is not suitable or safe for the individual.
There are 3 consultants who run the weight loss programme and who will be supporting you with one-to-one sessions. These are:
– Prof Frank Joseph (Medical Consultant, Specialist in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Internal Medicine)
– Lesley Poole (Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist)
– Susan Gallagher (Registered Dietitian, Specialist in Weight Management and Diabetes)
Our team all work within the NHS, as well as in private practices and between them have a wealth of experience and expertise which make them the perfect combination to guide you on your successful weight loss journey. Click here to read more about their experience.
Everyone who has joined the programme has had success at losing weight. As with most things, each journey is different, due to possible medical conditions and other factors. But we will only set goals that are achievable. The programme is designed and customised to match your lifestyle and if you are committed to following it, you will see positive results.
Our programme is not just designed to help you lose weight, it is designed to also show you how to maintain your weight loss and improve your health.
If you achieve the weight loss you were looking for, one of the two scenarios will follow:
– You may be able to maintain the weight loss by adhering to the lifestyle and dietary change that you have instituted
– You may need to taper the dose of the medical therapy gradually to try and avoid weight regain if this is what you are concerned about. This is especially relevant if you have been unable to instate sufficient lifestyle and dietary changes during that time or unable to sustain them for any reason
If you have not yet achieved the healthy target weight you were aiming for and wish to continue the process:
– The medical therapy will be continued until your target weight is achieved
– You will be reviewed every 3 to 6 months by Prof Frank Joseph and your medication renewed depending on your needs
What Our Patients Say...
It is amazing how much of a confidence boost losing weight and feeling better in oneself can be!
Despite the lockdown, I have lost another 6kgs in weight and continue to make progress. I have now lost 4 stone since I started this journey less than 12 months ago!
Losing weight has been easy and successful for the first time in my life.
I am a shadow of my former self, having lost 8 stone in weight with the medication, concerted exercise, and dietary intervention.
I am now looking forward to holidays abroad. I feel so confident and have never felt like I could achieve this ever before.