COMMISSIONING TLC
Transform Public and Workplace Health
The Lifestyle Club offers two evidence-based diet and lifestyle education programmes, available via the NHS or workplaces at no cost to participants
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For People Living With Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes
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For Anyone Wishing to Improve General Health & Wellbeing
Learn MoreWhy TLC for Your Patients?
- Better physical & mental health for patients
- Reduced need for prescribed medication
- Leading to drug cost savings for individual surgeries & the wider NHS
- Easing of clinician workload, releasing time & responsibility
- Heightened clinician job satisfaction & retention
Why TLC for Your
Workforce?
- Increased employee productivity & economic returns
- Lower healthcare costs & reduced absenteeism
- Heightened employee engagement, satisfaction & retention
- More resilient & adaptive workforce
- Better placed to adapt to increased regulatory pressures
Commissioning Made Simple
- Our aim is to reduce your workload, not add to it!
- Comprehensive onboarding programme for referrers, including guidance & resources for signposting
- Easy referral process – simply signpost those who might benefit from TLC to our booking website to sign-up for an Information Session
- TLC handles participant enrolment, course delivery, ongoing support & outcome reporting
- Support available for clinicians on deprescribing & medication adjustments
- Flexible funding options for ICBs, PCNs, individual surgeries & workplaces
Accreditations
and Awards
- QISMET accredited (2023)
- HSJ Silver Award-Winner for Primary Care Project of the Year (2024)
- X-PERT Health Audit Award-Winners for 4 years in a row (2022 to 2025)
Evidence
Snapshot
- Proven results with TLC Diabetes in 13 PCN
- Results of TLC Diabetes pilot in 2021 validated by recent research study in partnership with the University of Surrey, published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health in January 2026
- Successful pilot of TLC Wellbeing in 2025 with major UK employer Scotland’s Railway
Long Term Data
- TLC is based on the work of Dr David Unwin, an award-winning NHS GP based in Southport, who is also Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Public Health Collaboration
- Dr Unwin’s study published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health in January 2023 presents his patient outcomes over an 8-year period. It reveals that 97% of patients improved their diabetic control, and 51% with type 2 diabetes achieved drug-free remission.
- Alongside that, Dr Unwin has calculated that since 2018 his practice has accumulative cost savings of an estimated £420,000 in comparison with the local average.
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