LighterLife Ongoing Check-Up
Significant and rapid weight loss can reduce
blood pressure and medication requirements. Therefore, as
recommended in the NICE and COMA guidelines, patients should be monitored
while on a VLCD such as LighterLife Total.
We ask that you, or a suitably qualified
individual from your practice:
- Record a pulse and blood pressure reading on the patient’s
Ongoing Check-Up Form or practice-headed paper, every 28 days.
- Review your patient’s medication
requirements regularly if they’ve been prescribed medication
for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, hypothyroidism or
diuretic medication.
If a patient on the LighterLife Total VLCD is
not taking prescribed medication, the ongoing check-up can be
carried out anywhere that provides a BP service: for example, by a
practice nurse, pharmacist or other healthcare professional.
Many LighterLife weight-management counsellors
provide an in-house, clinical-monitoring service for healthy
patients, run by registered nurses.
What happens to completed LighterLife ongoing check-up
forms?
Your patient takes the completed forms back to
their weight-management counsellor, who records the data on
LighterLife’s secure Client Data System. The original forms are
then sent to LighterLife Central Office for verification.
Patients are only allowed to continue
participating in the LighterLife Total VLCD with this regular
monitoring in place.
LighterLife complies with the Data Protection
Act.
View a copy of the LighterLife Ongoing Check-Up
Form