In addition to the support you receive from your primary care team, there are services available to help you learn about diabetes and to support you to self manage your diabetes. To find out more, please click on the links below or Call the NHS Grampian Healthpoint team on 08085 202030.
Due to increased demand we are reviewing and redesigning our Weight Management services. We will be adding new services in the future and ask you revisit the website regularly to learn more about these services as they become available.
For more information about Type 2 Diabetes, please click here.
You can self refer to the below:
An interactive group session led by dietitians where you can learn how to better manage your Type 2 diabetes.
Online weight management programme to help you
achieve a healthier lifestyle and weight.
To help you manage your diagnosis, trained psychologists can support you in changing your lifestyle.
NHS Grampian have partnered with local leisure providers to deliver the NHS Scotland approved Counterweight programme. Counterweight Ltd is the service provider and is not part of the NHS.
The Counterweight Programme is a habit based behaviour change programme and helps you to lose 5-10% of your starting body weight and keep it off. The programme is delivered in various leisure centres across Grampian.
The programme will be delivered weekly in a group setting over 12 weeks, followed by support sessions at 6,9 and 12 months. You will be supported to make sustainable changes to your eating habits and activity levels in order to lose weight. Support will be provided throughout the programme from your Counterweight Coach, other group members and via the educational content in the Counterweight App or Workbook.
You can be referred by your GP Practice or you can self-refer by following the links below,
Ask your GP practice to be referred to the below:
We deliver an online programme supported by one of the community dietetic team for those people who do not wish to undertake it by themselves.
Think Well, Eat Well is an NHS Grampian programme delivered by specialist dietitians and psychologists to support people with more complex needs. The programme will help people to make lifestyle and behaviour changes that can improve their relationship with food as well as overall health, wellbeing, and help them achieve a healthier weight.
- Total Diet Replacement of nutritional soups and shakes
- Food reintroduction
- Long term weight-loss maintenance