Digital Weight Management Programme by Liva Healthcare
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Service Summary
This Digital Weight Management Programme by Liva Healthcare is a 12-week evidence-based healthy lifestyle change service available to anyone living with obesity or those diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension or both(*).
The programme will help you make positive lifestyle changes, manage your weight and improve your long-term health.
Key Features
You’ll receive personalised support to manage your weight, eat more healthily and be more physically active – which together have been proven to reduce a person’s risk of developing long-term health conditions or help manage them.
- Digital one-to-one support
- Specialist and personalised healthy lifestyle support from a health coach over 12 weeks, available via your smartphone or tablet with Liva’s app.
- Access the service conveniently through your smartphone, you’ll have support in your pocket. No need to travel or arrange follow-up appointments.
- Monitor and track your personal health goals in the Liva app, receive psychological, lifestyle and nutritional advice, and connect with a closed community of other people on the same journey as you, to help you gain confidence and keep up positive lifestyle changes long term.
- Connect with a health coach of your choice, with multiple languages spoken to ensure everyone is catered for.
Eligibility criteria
- Aged 18 or over.
- Have a body mass index (BMI) ≥27.5.
- Have a smartphone or tablet
- Not pregnant.
- No active eating disorder diagnosis
- Has not had bariatric surgery in the last two years
- People who are not at a higher risk of harm than benefit from participating in a weight management programme
- Those who are motivated to change their lifestyle and can commit to the 12-week programme
- Registered at a GP practice in England
How it works
Get started
You first will provide a little more about yourself and your health and well-being through the one-to-one video consultation with your health coach. They will help you prepare for the journey ahead and come up with an action plan to help you achieve your goals over 12 weeks.
Get focused
The first 6 weeks of the programme focus on understanding your health and wellbeing and how lifestyle can have an effect. You’ll work towards your action plan with support from your health coach through weekly in-app check-ins (all via video message and text) and community group chat.
Maintain
For the remainder of the programme, you will continue to build confidence in maintaining your new, healthy choices. You will continue to track and monitor your progress on the Liva app, even after the programme ends.
About this provider
Since its inception in 2015 in Denmark, Liva has been leading the way in the field of digital therapeutics. Thie key ambition is to prevent, manage and treat chronic disease through behaviour and lifestyle change, with a keen focus on cardiometabolic conditions.
Liva offers a unique hybrid digital therapeutics platform that combines personalised, one-on-one lifestyle coaching with innovative digital-first delivery.
Their team of dedicated healthcare professionals create tailored behaviour and lifestyle change programs to support patients in their journey to prevent, manage and treat obesity, type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions. The safety and efficacy of our digital therapeutic programmes are well-supported by extensive evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and other clinical studies.
Headquartered in Copenhagen and London, Liva is at the forefront of delivering industry-leading lifestyle change and chronic disease management programmes across Europe. Our collaborations with healthcare systems, including the NHS, as well as partnerships with some of the world’s largest life science companies and health insurers allow us to impact lives on a large scale.
Other successful programmes Liva run in partnership with NHS in the UK include:
- NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme where users have been shown to reduced their chances of getting type 2 diabetes by more than a third (37%).
- NHS England Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme | Liva Healthcare - a 12-month pilot where users reduced their weight by up to 10-15% of their starting weight**
For further information, you can contact: support-uk@livahealth.com
Other Information
(*): This service is available to anyone who is obese or overweight and looking for behavioural and lifestyle coaching advice as a privately paid service.
Patients who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or suffer from hypertension with a BMI of at least 27, may also be eligible to access this service through the NHS in the UK. In such cases, patients should speak to their NHS GP who can refer them to this service through the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme.
You can also find more information about the programme on the NHS website: www.england.nhs.uk/digital-weight-management/
(**): Based on evidence from the following trials: