Weight Management – Active Blackpool (Blackpool Teaching Hospitals)
Active Blackpool’s weight management service is designed to help adults and families to lose weight and to improve their lifestyle. Our specific weight loss services and healthy lifestyle programmes follow a behaviour change model via delivery containing nutrition and healthy eating advice alongside physical activity. There are two services delivered under Active Blackpool. They are:
- Exercise Referral
The Health Referral Scheme is delivered by Active Blackpool, designed to help inactive people with chronic mild to moderate medical conditions become and stay more physically active, whilst benefiting and improving their health.
- Health Coaching
Health coaching is a service offered to help create lasting change to improve an individual’s wellbeing and overall health. It is a series of sessions, designed to help individuals work through doable steps and develop their own unique skills needed to build confidence and take control of their own health and wellbeing.
To be eligible for either of the above services, you must be:
- Adults aged 16 +
- Registered with a general practice.
- Sufficiently motivated to want to increase their physical activity levels.
- Meet at least one of the clinical referral criteria listed below:
Clinical Referral Criteria:
- Sedentary (less than 150 mins a week of moderate activity)
- Overweight No complications
- Hypertension 139/89 (controlled)
- Suffer from mild anxiety /depression
- Smoker
Alternatively, for any enquiries, you can call Active Blackpool on 01253 478007 or email exercise.referral@blackpool.gov.uk