United Kingdom · Appointment preparation
Bring a useful GLP-1 record to your UK medicines review
Turn a long diary into a short discussion sheet for your GP, practice pharmacist or prescribing team.
Choose the question your record should answer
Before a review, write one sentence about what you want help with: remembering administrations, understanding a label, describing symptoms or comparing records taken in different weight units. Put that question above your diary. It helps you find the entries that matter without reading every note aloud during a short appointment.
Use the review date and a clear date range for your summary. Where a date might be ambiguous, write the month in words. Keep unknown entries visibly unknown; an empty day in a tracker does not prove whether you took a medicine.
Prepare the complete medicines picture
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS guidance recommends bringing a medicines list, including vitamins, supplements and herbal products, notes about medicines stopped and why, questions, and recent hospital or discharge letters. A review may be by phone, online or in person. Ask your practice or prescribing service how they want to receive information.
Make the prescribed GLP-1 product easy to identify with its exact name and formulation. Put medicines obtained from different services on the same personal list. Keep the record factual: which product you have, what you recorded taking and which instructions need explanation. The clinician or pharmacist assesses how the medicines fit together.
Keep weight units visible
If weight is part of your agreed monitoring, retain the number and unit shown on the scale. A diary might contain kilograms, pounds, or stones and pounds from different sources. Use separate fields for stones and pounds rather than treating the second number as a decimal fraction of a stone. Do not silently overwrite the original reading.
For a kg-to-lb conversion, keep the original beside the converted value and label both. A change in unit is not a change in body weight. Ask the reviewing professional which format is most useful; this sheet does not select a target or interpret a trend.
UK medicines review worksheet
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Print this page to write by hand, or open the CSV in a spreadsheet. Leave unknown details blank. This worksheet does not submit information.
| Field | My notes |
|---|---|
| Review date, service and main question | |
| Exact GLP-1 product and formulation | |
| Other medicines, supplements and recent changes | |
| Diary date range and entries to discuss | |
| Weight reading with original unit, if relevant | |
| Symptoms, dates and effect on daily activities | |
| Label or routine questions | |
| Agreed next steps and contact |
Finish with a record you can act on
Illustrative question: “My scale changed from kg to stones and pounds. Which records would you like me to bring next time?” Another useful prompt is: “Who should I contact if I do not understand the instructions after this appointment?” These are discussion examples, not testimonials.
During the review, write the agreed next steps, who explained them and where the updated instructions are stored. Keep that note distinct from your own questions. If a suspected side effect also needs reporting, the UK Yellow Card service is a separate route and cannot provide medical advice. This worksheet neither books a review nor connects to NHS records.