{"id":26576,"date":"2025-09-16T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/?p=26576"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:00:14","slug":"new-practitioner-guidelines-for-working-with-clients-on-glp-1-weight-loss-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/new-practitioner-guidelines-for-working-with-clients-on-glp-1-weight-loss-medications\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW PRACTITIONER GUIDELINES FOR WORKING WITH CLIENTS ON GLP-1 WEIGHT LOSS MEDICATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Visit the new guidelines in the BANT professional Practice Handbook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/bant-professional-practice-handbook\/specific-conditions\/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NEW%20Practitioner%20Guidelines%20for%20working%20with%20clients%20on%20GLP-1%20Weight%20Loss%20Medications%20%2801K4WRB320FAH38FZEAGE58QZJ%29&amp;utm_id=VZG3Ct&amp;utm_term=here&amp;_kx=zQPy7zuVah-Alk_L4nQWKg.RXQFQR#glp-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The use of injectable weight loss medications has grown rapidly. Given the increased awareness of weight loss medications and their availability, it is estimated that 80% of prescriptions have been obtained privately through online pharmacies or other providers. As a result, most people are not provided any wraparound care or support with diet or physical activity to achieve sustainable weight loss.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>BANT members are well-positioned to support individuals taking GLP-1 medications, whether in support of weight loss or other conditions. As Nutritional Therapists in clinical practice you will have undertaken training in metabolic health, safe and sustainable weight loss, and behaviour change techniques as part of your qualification. This puts members in the unique position to offer the \u00a0wraparound care for individuals on these medications while being non-judgemental and supportive, and of course continue to support individuals seeking to lose weight without injectables.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whilst the NHS is providing some access to coaching, there is little or no known provision for the estimated 80% of clients accessing prescriptions privately. You may already be noticing a surge of enquiries in your clinics regarding this, or may wish to directly market your services to individuals and\/or to GP and Primary Care networks as part of the referral system to PSA-accredited Practitioners including CNHC Registrants.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/NEW-Practitioner-Guidelines-for-working-with-clients-on-GLP-1-Weight-Loss-Medications.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to access the full eblast.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit the new guidelines in the BANT professional Practice Handbook\u00a0here. The use of injectable weight loss medications has grown rapidly. Given the increased awareness of weight loss medications and their availability, it is estimated that 80% of prescriptions have been obtained privately through online pharmacies or other providers. As a result, most people are not provided any wraparound care or support with diet or physical activity to achieve sustainable weight loss. BANT members are well-positioned to support individuals taking GLP-1 medications, whether in support of weight loss or other conditions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1736],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-26576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eblast","category-professional-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26576"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=26576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}