Professionals

Livewell is a healthy lifestyle service for Derby residents.  It offers free 12-month intervention programmes to support adults and children make lifestyle changes to improve their health and wellbeing.

Our variety of programmes includes weight management for children and adults, stop smoking and community-based NHS Health Checks.

Livewell is proud to employ 25 of the most dedicated and experienced behaviour change individuals and we’re passionate about giving your patients a high-quality service. 

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Referral criteria

Adults and children registered to a Derby GP practice:

  • Smokers – young people aged 12-17 and adults
  • Children on the 85th percentile or higher for Live IT weight management
  • Adults with a BMI of 30 or higher (27.5 for South Asian ethnicity)
  • Adults aged 40-74 without pre-existing conditions for NHS Health Checks

Click here for a full list of our programmes.

How to refer

Health and other professionals can signpost patients/people to our website to apply to join our weight programmes. Patients can also apply and book an NHS Health Check or their first stop smoking appointment online too.

Professionals can now refer patients/persons in your care through downloadable forms for the following programmes:

Liveability (weight management programme for people with learning disabilities). 
Live IT form (supporting children to manage weight/stop smoking).

Client case studies

Rikki before and after

Rikki Warrington from Chellaston

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Paul Hitchcock before and after
Paul Hitchcock

I've shed five stone for the sake of my granddaughter.

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Rikki before and after
Lose weight
Rikki Warrington

I love being a healthy role model to my daughter.

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Useful downloads

Download the Livewell A5 client flyer.

Download the Livewell A5 client flyer in Punjabi.

Download our Health Check Poster - presented at the fourth annual conference Getting Serious about Prevention 2017.

Download our NHS Health Check info pack - integrating community based NHS Health Checks with lifestyle services.

Download our Annual Report 2020/2021

Download our Active Schools 2017/2018 Evaluation

To request printed versions of these flyers, please email [email protected].