Supporting a healthy lifestyle

Weight management

Weight management

If you would like to know more about weight and diet advice, please contact us for advice on how to lose weight and stay healthy.

A range of options are available to support people with weight loss. To understand which of them may be the best fit for you please arrange an appointment with your GP who will be happy to discuss them with you.

Many doctors now believe that when it comes to your health, your waist measurement is important.

While knowing your body mass index (BMI) is a good way to decide if you’re overweight, it doesn’t tell the whole story.

BMI is a measure of how healthy your weight is for your height. You can work out what your BMI is by using the NHS BMI healthy weight calculator.

If you have a high BMI, you’re likely to be carrying extra fat. But your health could be at greater risk depending on where you store that fat.

Having a large amount of tummy fat (compared to fat around your bottom or thighs) makes you more likely to develop diabetes and heart problems.
A healthy waist circumference for men is less than 94cm (37 inches), and for women it’s less than 80cm (32 inches).

Losing weight and keeping it off isn’t easy, but it has many benefits. You may only need to make small changes to your lifestyle to maintain a healthy weight.

If you’d like to find out more about how you can lose weight in a healthy way please book an appointment with one of our nurses.

Websites
NHS – Check your BMI
NHS – 8 tips for healthy eating

  • Slimming World

    You’ll find delicious recipe and menu ideas at your local group, along with all the help you need to get started and reach your target weight.

    Website
    Slimming World

  • Weight Watchers

    Meetings, online or a little bit of both. They’ve got options and support, whatever your lifestyle.

    Website
    Weight Watchers

Drugs and alcohol

Alcohol advice

NHS Advice on drinking recommends that men should not regularly drink more than 3-4 units of alcohol a day and women should not regularly drink more than 2-3 units a day, “regularly” means drinking every day or most days of the week.

Website
NHS – Alcohol Misuse
NHS – Where to find alcohol support
Change Grow Live

Sexual health

Services at the surgery

A range of sexual health services are offered at the surgery including:
– Contraception and contraception advice
– Emergency contraception and emergency contraception advice
– Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhoea and genital warts
– Testing and counselling for HIV and AIDS

If you need advice and support with a sexual health matter or you think you have a problem you would like to discuss, please make an appointment with your GP.
Sexual health services are freely available for everyone.

Website
British Pregnancy Advisory Service
Sexual Advice Association
NHS – Sexual Health Topics

  • Brook

    Brook provides free and confidential sexual health and wellbeing services for nearly 250,000 young people UK-wide, each year.

    Website
    Brook

  • Sexual Health Helpline

    The National Sexual Health Helpline provided by Public Health England is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm.

    Phone
    0300 123 7123

  • Family Planning Association

    A sexual health charity, the Family Planning Association gives straightforward information and support on sexual health, sex and relationships to everyone in the UK.

    Phone
    020 7608 5240

    Website
    Family Planning Association

Smoking cessation

Services at the surgery

If you’re trying to give up smoking, we can help. Studies show that your chances of success will be greatly improved if you get advice and support from health care professionals to help you stop smoking and if you don’t pay for your prescriptions then giving up is free.

The services we offer from the practice can:
– Boost your willpower to stop smoking
– Concentrate your efforts by getting advice from someone who knows your medical background
– Help you feel that you’re not doing it alone
– Help you to cope when you are tempted to smoke
– Monitor improvements to your health so that you can see the benefits

Please contact the surgery for further guidance.

  • NHS Quit smoking

    Quitting is much easier when you get the right support and there are lots of options to choose from. Check out their advice, tools and tips.

    Website
    NHS: Quit smoking