Pharmacy has the power to tackle obesity with confidence

Pharmacy leads the way on tackling obesity with confidence

The benefit to both patients and the NHS from taking obesity seriously is tremendous. As healthcare professionals, pharmacists and GPs have a duty of care to not only treat obesity related illnesses but to prevent their occurrence in the first place.

The ever rising levels of weight-related medical conditions, from hypertension to type 2 diabetes, seems to be going unchecked. Sugar tax and banning fast-food advertising before the water-shed is a sticking plaster at best. Healthcare professionals are seemingly constrained in their ability to tackle obesity when it comes to effective therapies and it seems a lack of confidence when discussing the subject.

Telling people to eat less and exercise more is not winning the fight against obesity.

Pharmacy is well placed to deal with obesity issues with confidence as this pharmacist, working in a Well Pharmacy branch in London explains through a podcast on the Chemist & Druggist website:

 https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/lipotrim-helps-pharmacy-treat-obesity-with-confidence/

The podcast sheds a light on the many issues that need addressing when talking to patients about excess weight, including discussing the effective Lipotrim Pharmacy Weight Management Programme.

C&D AWARDS 2019

C&D AWARDS 2019

A HUGE SUCCESS FOR PHARMACY

A few weeks have now passed since the Chemist & Druggist Award ceremony 2019 which drew pharmacists and pharmacy staff from all over the UK.

A celebration of best practice and everything pharmacy can offer, from critical care to how pharmacy goes "Above and beyond", the evening was a huge success. A black-tie event with entertainment and a well organised after-show party, complete with casino, the 2020 C&D Awards ceremony will have to go some way to better 2019.

At Howard Foundation Research, we would like to extend our congratulations to the 14 winners and all those who entered the C&D Awards 2019, and especially to those who offer our Lipotrim programme.

An extra huge well done to Wansford Pharmacy who scooped the GP Partnership of the year award. Their entry included a piece on how they are adding to their essential pharmacy services by offering a comprehensive weight management option, including the Lipotrim Pharmacy Weight Management Programme, through a pharmacist clinic called Waistaway.

If you would like to get involved please contact us today or call 0800 413735.

GOLD STANDARD DIET

Is LIPOTRIM THE BEST DIET?

"Gold standard”, according to Mosby's Medical Dictionary, is:

“an acknowledged measure of comparison of the superior effectiveness or value of a particular medication or other therapy as compared with that of other drugs or treatments.”

So what makes a diet, a Gold Standard Diet?

The most recent Lipotrim UK and Lipotrim Ireland blogs examine what it takes to be the number 1 diet on the market.

If Lipotrim is not the gold standard diet, what diet is?

It is possible to answer this diet question by truthfully answering the following:

• Which diet is constantly being used as a comparison tool on other commercial diet websites?
• Which diet contains full nutrition at the optimal 425 to 570 Calories per day?
• Which diet upholds true food abstinence?
• Which diet gives very predictable, maximum rate weight losses, and can prove it?
• Which diet incorporates regular, direct healthcare professional contact as standard?
• Which diet maintains value for money in a world of “facelessness”?

Lipotrim is proud to be the weight management Gold Standard for healthcare professionals and the public alike, as it has been for more than 30 years.

Please click on the following links to read the full Lipotrim blogs:

Lipotrim UK Blog

Lipotrim Ireland Blog

Diabetes Awareness month 2018 - impact on family & support networks

Type 2 diabetes affects not only the sufferer but their family and their whole network of support.

November 2018 has seen the annual reflection on type 2 diabetes and this year looking at the impact diabetes has on the whole, not just the sufferer.

Diabetes costs the NHS £billions yet is mostly preventable.

In this latest Lipotrim blog post we look at World Diabetes Day and Diabetes awareness month, and how diabetes is affecting many people's lives negatively.

From Travel and Health Insurance, to the terrible medical complications (including amputations!) type 2 diabetes affects many people unnecessarily.

Type 2 diabetes is mainly a preventable condition.
Type 2 diabetes is often referred to as a "lifestyle disease".

So why oh why are we not doing more to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes?

Take a look at the full post where we discuss these issues and how pharmacy has the answer...

Call the Lipotrim helpline 0800 413 735 if you would like further advice

Pharmacy can help stop the amputation epidemic

Amputations required through the progression of Type 2 diabetes is nearing epidemic levels - it is time we took weight loss seriously. 

Both Type 2 diabetes and the subsequent amputations are mostly preventable.

This is a fact known throughout the medical and clinical world.


The lack of true weight management as a first-line intervention is a blight on our society. Type 2 diabetics can be treated more effectively, potentially stopping the need for progressive medication and ultimately preventing amputations.

Pharmacy has the expertise and availability to turn the tide on this medievil procedure.

Take a look at our blog post, detailing the issues that surround type 2 diabetes and in particular amputations. We look at the amputation statistics and how pharmacy can solve the amputation issue.

Call the Lipotrim helpline 0800 413 735 if you would like further advice

Pharmacy can save the Ireland healthcare service now

With the Ireland healthcare service in turmoil, grassroots recruitment issues and limited bed capacity in secondary care are once again taking the brunt of the anger.

Recently Emily O’Conor wrote in the Irish Times an impassioned article titled:

Emergency staff work hard enough – it’s the system that’s not working
Government needs to focus on recruitment and bed capacity to solve crisis

The demand being placed on the financially stretched Ireland healthcare service is immense and no wonder the results were far from excellent in the first National Patient Experience Survey (May 2017).

Pharmacy can take the lead.

Read more about the issues in the Ireland healthcare service and how pharmacy has an opportunity to lead change here...

Lipotrim Ireland - click here

Very Low Calorie Diets - are they all the same?

It is often asked whether the Lipotrim Ireland diet is the same as Exante, Nupo or even the newly emerged NewWeigh.

Our Lipotrim Ireland helpline (tel: 015 255636) gets patients regularly calling, confused as to whether Lipotrim has been re-branded or re-formulated or has been discontinued in Ireland.

The simple answer to all these questions is NO.

Lipotrim is still Lipotrim

No re-branding

No re-formulating

Many people misunderstand there is real science behind a successful and safe diet like Lipotrim.
Not all diets are the same.

VLCDs are defined simply by being a nutritionally complete diet, with an intake at or below 800 Calories per day.

So how safe and effective are VLCDs?
Are all VLCDs the same?
Why should the Lipotrim pharmacy weight management programme be the diet of choice?

In this article we look into these dieting questions and discover the truth of what makes a safe and effective VLCD.

Please take the time to read the following article on the Lipotrim Ireland blog:

https://ireland.lipotrim.com/vlcds-lipotrim-newweigh-compared/ 

If you have any questions, concerns or would like to discuss using Lipotrim in Ireland please call us on our helpline: 01525 56 36

If you are in the UK please call 0800 413 735