Type 2 Support Services

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: 

Control IT

An interactive group session led by dietitians where you can learn how to better manage your Type 2 diabetes.

Healthy Helpings

Online weight management programme to help you
achieve a healthier lifestyle and weight.

Self-management & Emotional Wellbeing

To help you manage your diagnosis, trained psychologists can support you in changing your lifestyle.

Counterweight and Physical Activity Programme

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: 

1:1 Dietetic Assessment Call

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Dietetic appointments can help you identify ways you can change your diet to help with weight loss and manage your diabetes. Clinic appointments include a detailed dietary assessment, planned goal setting with ongoing support and review. You will need to be referred to the Adult Weight Management Services by your GP to find out if this programme is suitable for you.

Counterweight Plus

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NHS Grampian clinicians deliver the NHS Scotland approved Counterweight programme. Counterweight Ltd is the service provider and is not part of NHS.
Type 2 diabetes remission through Counterweight Plus for applicable adult weight management patients.  A two-year intensive weight loss programme which aims to help those living with Type 2 Diabetes to achieve and maintain remission. The programme involves three key stages: 
  • Total Diet Replacement of nutritional soups and shakes
  • Food reintroduction
  • Long term weight-loss maintenance
Regular 1:1 and group sessions with one of our specialist dietitians are provided throughout the programme, including the option to receive emotional support from a psychologist. The programme is designed by Counterweight Ltd and based on ground-breaking evidence from the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DIRECT). 
This service is available free through NHS Grampian, you will need to be referred to the Adult Weight Management Service by your GP to find out if this programme is suitable for you.