VERIFIED HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASUREMENT
If you wish to start weight loss medication under my care, my ethical and professional obligations require me to confirm the accuracy of your height, weight and BMI so that I can provide you with the safest and most appropriate care.
I would normally verify this during a face-to-face consultation, in the NHS or privately. However, for online consultations, I am required to ask you for photographic evidence to comply with national CQC regulations for medical services.
Unfortunately, many unscrupulous providers, are not complying with regulations and are issuing drugs to anyone, with no proof that they are actually overweight. This unsupervised and inappropriate prescribing can actually make longterm weight control harder, can be dangerous, and raises concerns about the safety of their practice and their sourcing and handling of medication in general.
It also detracts from the potential of these valuable new drugs to make a real impact on the health and weight of so many people, and risks wasting their money, which saddens me.
Please upload photos to provide evidence of your height and weight using the link below.
Wearing fitted clothing e.g. lycra will also allow me to assess your body shape, as I would do in my hospital clinic. This will provide me with more insight on your health risks. A side profile photo will therefore help too.
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