Lipotrim from a pharmacy point of view

Lipotrim has a long track record delivering successful weight losses to pharmacy patients since the year 2000. Pharmacy is ideally placed to manage people who are overweight or obese, especially if also suffering from medical conditions such as high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.

Pharmacists are highly trained heath-care professionals, experts in medications and are able to manage the complications existing medical conditions bring when losing weight.

Here are some of the comments made by pharmacies who are running the Lipotrim weight management service.

Paul Scott-Harris, Manager of Buxted Pharmacy, East Sussex.

Paul believes in a holistic approach to patient care and is firmly behind the benefits of Lipotrim for improved clinical outcomes.

"We use Lipotrim as a medical tool to help our patients improve their health and gain positive outcomes such as a reduction in their medications. We recently had a patient who suffered from bad rheumatism in her hand and knees. Since losing three stone she has been able to reduce her anti-rheumatic medicines as well as her blood pressure medication."

Chris Mulimba, Pharmacist Superintendent of The Riverside Pharmacy, Sleaford

We currently (Nov 16) have a wonderful 75 year old lady who has lost 3st in two months. Another lady lost 4st in four months and is now on the Lipotrim Maintenance products. Recently we had a borderline diabetic who, after losing weight with Lipotrim, returned to his doctor and was judged healthy and no longer at risk of diabetes.
We are providing a community service and we enjoy it. Our first customer still pops in regularly for a weigh-in and a chat.

Sarah Douglas, Counter assistant at Kelly's Pharmacy, Aintree, Liverpool.

We had a 19 year old man who was about to start teaching and wanted to make massive changes to avoid any difficulties at school with pupils teasing him. Over a 2 year period he went from 21 stone to 11 stone. He continued to come in for weigh-ins for a couple of years. He changed his life dramatically.
We are told we are friendly  and offer a great service. We let people continue to come for weekly weigh-ins for as long as they want. We get a lot of people going onto Lipotrim Maintenance products for short periods of time to keep their weight stable.

Andrew Boyle is the pharmacist at Shelf Pharmacy, Halifax 

We offer an alternative to a slimming club with a one to one personalised service. Customers appreciate the unhurried, weekly appointment that allows them to share their weight loss privately and to get individual advice and feedback. We empathise with them about the difficult moments and are never judgemental when they lapse.

Robert Cousins, Superintendent Pharmacist and manager at Insync Healthcare Pharmacy

We tend to get a lot of patients who are diabetic, have high blood pressure or are on medication like warfarin. In these instances we arrange for regular blood tests for them with the onsite nurse to ensure that their GP is kept up to date and can alter medication according to the results.
We have had lots of success stories with clients coming completely off their diabetic medicine or reducing from four blood pressure medicines down to one.
We have high patient satisfaction and this is probably because we run the programme on their terms so they enjoy coming in. Almost all our clients continue onto the Maintenance products. If they are finding it difficult and are in danger of giving up then we actively encourage them to move to the Maintenance product where they continue to lose weight. Our philosophy is to let people switch when they feel ready as we would rather they continued than gave up completely. We have one man who has been on Maintenance formulas for 18 months and continues to lose weight.

Want to know more about Lipotrim?

If you are an individual wishing to learn more about how to lose weight successfully and healthily with the help of your pharmacy please call us on 0800 413 735. 

Alternatively please visit our website www.lipotrim.co.uk 

If you are from a pharmacy and would like more information on how you too can offer the Lipotrim Pharmacy weight management programme please email us at lipotrim@lipotrim.co.uk to request your Lipotrim information pack.