Livewell is a healthy lifestyle service for people registered to GP practice in Derby. It offers free 12-month intervention programmes to support adults and children make lifestyle changes to improve their health and wellbeing.
Formerly known as b-You, the project started as a weight loss pilot in 2011 run by Derby City Council and funded by NHS Derby City.
Since then it has become much more than a weight loss programme and is now a successful lifestyle service for Derby, funded through Public Health. As well as weight management it incorporates a variety of different programmes including stop smoking, child weight management and NHS Health Checks.
Referral criteria
Adults and children registered to a Derby GP practice:
- Smokers – young people aged 12-17 and adults
- Children aged 5-17 on the 85th centile or higher for Child Weight Management
- Adults with a BMI of 30 or higher for Lose Weight
- Inactive adults with a BMI of 35 or under for Free Fitness Programmes with DCFC
Click here for a full list of our programmes and referral criteria.
How to Refer
Health and other professionals can signpost patients/people to our website to apply to join our weight or fitness programmes. Patients can also apply and book an NHS Health Check or their first stop smoking appointment online too.
Professionals can only refer patients through paper forms for the following programmes:
Download the Liveability adult and Liveability child forms (weight management for people with learning disabilities)
Download the Live IT/Kick IT form (supporting children to manage weight/stop smoking)
Annual Report
Download our Annual Report 2016/2017
Success Stories
Watch our client videos and read our clients' amazing journeys:
Norman - lost 10 stones to be half the man but have double the lease of life.
Ana - celebrates beating smoking for good after 31 years of smoking 40 a day.
Client flyers
Download the Livewell A5 client flyer
Download the Livewell A5 client flyer in Punjabi
To request printed versions of these flyers, please email [email protected]
NHS Health Checks
Download our poster - presented at the fourth annual conference Getting Serious about Prevention 2017
Download our information pack - integrating community based NHS Health Checks with lifestyle services