Slimming World on Referral is a long-established partnership scheme between health professionals and Slimming World, providing patients with effective, long-lasting, community-based weight loss support.
Health professionals looking for weight loss programmes can refer patients to Slimming World groups, offering them free membership, ordinarily in blocks of 12 weeks. The cost is paid by local authority teams or Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and subsidised by Slimming World, making this a very cost-effective option.
Our friendly and knowledgeable Partnerships team would love to tell you more about offering Slimming World on Referral to your patients.
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If you’re not a health professional, and you’re looking for weight loss support, your local Slimming World Consultant can give you more information on the referral scheme and our latest special offers.
Proven to be effective
The first weight management company to actively support the building of partnerships with the NHS, Slimming World pioneered its ‘Slimming on Referral’ scheme with the Southern Derbyshire health authority in 2000. This partnership scheme was set up to provide patients with regular weight loss support alongside appointments with primary care. Our pilot with Derbyshire (Lavin et al, 2006, Public Health) proved that a commercial weight loss management company could offer an effective solution to reduce overweight and obesity levels in the community. The pilot scheme provided recognition of service quality, patient satisfaction and value for money. It has proven to be an effective, low-cost solution for the NHS with more than 400 schemes having been established and more than 675,000 patient referrals having taken place in the past 25 years.
Find data from our evaluation of Slimming World on Referral here.