Local Weight Management services

You can find weight management support online at:

• Obesity UK 
• Obesity Empowerment Network 
• Weight Management - Everyone Health Staffordshire- offers a range of programmes in the community, with both virtual and face to face groups available.
• The Digital Weight Management Programme, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent- a free, twelve-week online programme, to kickstart your journey to weight loss and better health.

Visit this online tool to check your motivation and readiness to change.

• Managing obesity - your mindset
• Emotional eating and feasting
• Talking therapies
• Beating eating disorders

• Managing Emotional Eating at Home – particularly useful for those self-isolating with COVID-19
• Hunger and Fullness Scale
• Triggers to Eating Chart – to differentiate between types of hunger and patterns in hunger
• Eat Right Now – evidence-based daily program to address eating habits and emotional eating

• NHS 8 Tips for Healthy Eating
• Healthy Eating Factsheet
• Fruit and Vegetable Factsheet
• Carbohydrates Factsheet
• Fat Factsheet
• Calcium Factsheet
• Fluid Factsheet
• Portion Sizes Factsheet
• Food Labelling Factsheet
• British Heart Foundation Eat Better Booklet
• Food portions

• Healthy eating
• Family recipes
• Recipe finder

• The Dieting Cycle
• The Healthy Eating cycle
• British Dietetic Association Fad Diets
• British Heart Foundation Dieting Myths

• The Mediterranean diet (heartuk.org.uk)
• About low carb 
• Low carb program 
• Intermittent fasting
• 2 day diet 
• Meal plans and diabetes | Diabetes UK Can also be used by people without Diabetes.

• Physical activity for adults and older adults
• Physical activity for disabled adults
• http://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise
• Find ways to be physically active near you via Active My Way 
• Love activity, hate exercise campaign 
• Active through Stoke

• Food facts
• Staffordshire health apps

• Food and essentials
• Cost of living suport
• Eat Well, Spend Less Factsheet

• Samaritans
• Mood Gym – online self-help book designed to manage anxiety and depression using CBT-techniques
• Mindfulness – eight-week free mindfulness programme designed to reduce stress
• Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Self Help Guides (ntw.nhs.uk)
• Free & Confidential Talking Therapy (staffsandstoketalkingtherapies.nhs.uk) 0300 303 0923

• Weight Loss Surgery Info – for information, support and patient experiences on weight loss surgery.
• Obesity Empowerment Network UK is a non-profit, user led, advocacy organisation

• End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz
• Overcoming Weight Problems by Jeremy Gaunlett-Gilbert & Clare Grace
• Weight Loss for Food Lovers by George Blair-West
• Overcoming Body Image Problems by David Veale, Rob Wilson & Alex Clarke
• The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn Schiraldi
• The Joy of Half a Cookie by Jean Kristellar & Alisa Bowman
• Well Nourished by Andrea Leiberstein, RD
• Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat by Dr Michelle May
• Mindful Eating: Free Yourself from Overeating by Jan Chozen Bays
• The Emotional First Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery by Cynthia Alexander
• Living with Bariatric Surgery: Managing your Mind and Your Weight by Dr Denise Ratcliffe

Eating well - early years

Healthy eating and physical activity 

Healthier families

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board has received several enquiries following national updates about weight-loss medication prescriptions becoming available.

Weight management services are commissioned by the ICB, which is aware that there is a need to provide a Tier 3 service, which is not currently available in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. A Tier 3 service is a multidisciplinary approach that can support with many weight-related concerns via various pathways as individually appropriate; this can include medications, bariatric surgery and mental and emotional wellbeing alongside diet and lifestyle changes.

The ICB is developing plans to make a Tier 3 service available in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, and, like other ICBs, is awaiting guidance from the national NHS team to understand how a wider roll out of therapies can be safely conducted.

Weight-management services update – Mounjaro

We are receiving a significant number of enquiries about the availability of the Mounjaro weight-loss drug which has been approved by NHS England for eligible patients. NHS England has set the criteria for eligibility for the drug; this is a national policy which all NHS prescribers, such as GPs and pharmacists, are required to abide by. The criteria for weight management cannot be changed by prescribers.

Although NHS England has approved the drug, all GPs are waiting for information about how the drug will be provided to eligible patients, when, and for how long. We are also awaiting guidance about how the drug should be used by patients along with other services to support weight management, such as diet and exercise.

Current guidance is that anyone with a BMI of 40 or higher, and with four or more of the qualifying comorbidities (hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obstructive sleep apnoea, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes) will be eligible for assessment to identify their suitability for Mounjaro. Anyone not meeting these criteria will not be eligible for assessment in the first year of the drug being available.