Are you at risk of developing type 2 diabetes? The NHS Healthier You: Diabetes Prevention Programme, one of the national programmes available in West Yorkshire, is here to support you. This nine-month, evidence-based lifestyle change programme is designed to help you take control of your health and reduce your risk. Choose the option that works best for you: join a face-to-face group or access the programme digitally—it's your choice.
These leaflets explain more about the programme and what you can expect whether you do this face-to-face, digitally or remotely.
Your digital journey - for patients taking part in the digital version of the NDPP
Your face-to-face journey - for patients taking part face-to-face in the NDPP
Your remote journey - for patients taking part remotely in the NDPP
Diabetes UK - support in the North leaflet for patients
In this section you can find out more about gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy).
Gestational diabetes patient leaflet
In this video, Clinical Diabetes Lead, Dr Waqas Tahir, discusses pregnancy and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in some women and how you can self-refer to the programme.
This leafletexplains more about Healthier You.
In this diabetes community champions video, find out how community champions work in different communities in Kirklees to help people learn more about diabetes prevention and management, testing, advice and support. Hear about their impact and some of the success stories from their work in 2023-24.
We asked John Ebo to keep a video diary of his journey through the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme.
Part 1 - John describes how he felt when he found out he was ‘pre-diabetic’ and what he plans to do about it
Part 2 - John describes what resources he accessed to find out more about reducing the risk of diabetes and his initial thoughts about embarking on the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme
Part 3 - John has completed his first video session and tells us what he thinks so far. He talks about the other people in his group and the coach’s advice around diet and weight
Part 4 - John is 5 months into his 9-month journey and loving it. He explains how nothing has dropped his blood pressure like this programme. With 5kg lost, John is taking it steady and well on target to lose 10% of his original body weight. John has lots of great tips for others wanting to reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes and boost health and wellbeing
Part 5 - we find John eight sessions down and five to go. It’s December and perhaps the trickiest part of the journey with all the temptations that the festive period brings. John recaps on what he’s learned so far and describes how the most recent session looked at recognising cravings and managing the hunger scale
Part 6 - John is seven months into the nine month programme and reflects on the last session which covered cooking, eating out, shopping and embedding good habits into your everyday life to prevent diabetes – and it doesn’t need to cost the earth if you use your local market and stick to seasonal fruit and veg
Part 7 - the last instalment of John’s video diary detailing his journey on the Healthier You NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme. What a journey – and what a difference. John describes how it’s gone and share his latest stats. The results speaks for themselves