Living Well Taking Control

Living Well Taking Control (LWTC) is a partnership with Birmingham-based charity Health Exchange. Each organisation has expertise in supporting individuals to change their lives by establishing new patterns of behaviour to improve their health and wellbeing. Health Exchange developed diabetes prevention programmes as part of an extension to their chronic disease education programmes since 2014. From a BIG lottery funded proof of concept for the LWTC programme. Health Exchange delivered a pilot programme on behalf of the NHS in the Birmingham 'demonstrator area', which contributed to the development of the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP). LWTC is now one of five providers of the NHS DPP and is currently delivering the programme in Birmingham; Bristol; Gloucestershire; Telford and Wrekin; Worcestershire; West Birmingham; Solihull; South Gloucestershire; Surrey Heartlands; Shropshire; Nottinghamshire; North Central London; Northamptonshire; Kent and Medway; Oxfordshire; Dorset; Derbyshire.