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Have Your Say on Lipoedema Pain!

Have Your Say on Lipoedema Pain! Participate in Pain Alliance Europe’s Chronic Pain, Mental Health and Self-Management Survey As part of Pain Alliance Europe (PAE), we’re helping raise awareness of what living with lipoedema pain is really like, and we’d love your support. The PAE’s Chronic Pain, Mental Health and Self-Management Survey is open now and is […]

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Do you have lipoedema? Have you ever been pregnant? We want to hear from you…

Do you have lipoedema? Have you ever been pregnant? We want to hear from you… You are invited to participate in an international research study exploring the experiences of lipoedema before and during pregnancy, and in the first year after childbirth. Participation involves completing an anonymous online questionnaire, which takes around 60 minutes and can

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Great News from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Liposuction for Lipoedema Update Lipoedema UK welcome an update to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NICE’s Liposuction for chronic lipoedema Guidance, IPG721. See the update from NICE below: “NICE is aware of the LIPLEG trial taking place in Germany and the July 2025 Federal Joint Committee press release about this trial. NICE will review this guidance

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Lipoedema UK Educate Nurses and Midwives in Collaboration with the Royal College of Nursing

Lipoedema UK is proud to share a new blog article written by our Director of Strategic Partnerships, Mary Warrilow, published on the Royal College of Nursing website and shared with the Women’s Health Forum members. Educating healthcare professionals and working in partnership with respected associations is crucial to raising the profile of this under-recognised condition.

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German Joint Federal Committee (G-BA) Recommend Funding of Lipoedema Liposuction in Germany

Surgical treatment of lipedema: G-BA includes liposuction in the regular catalogue of services after positive benefit assessment German Joint Federal Committee for Healthcare Services (G-BA) met on Thursday 17th July 2025, and recommended that liposuction for lipedema should be funded by the health insurance system in Germany for people with lipedema.   This decision recognises

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Take Part in a New International Research Study on Lipedema and Pregnancy

We would like to invite you to participate in an international research study exploring the experiences of lipedema before and during pregnancy, and in the first year after childbirth. This study is being conducted by Joanna Dudek, PhD, from SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland, Johanna Falck, PhD, and Professor Jan Martensson from Jönköping University in Sweden. What

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‘I hope you don’t mind me saying, but by the shape of your legs and hips, I think you may have Lipoedema’

I didn’t know anything about Lipoedema until 2018, but I noticed my legs were difficult to reduce in size after I had my son, who is now 36. I know some people notice symptoms around puberty, and I may have had it then but because I was unusually tall for a female in the 70s,

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Highlights of 2024

Welcome to our 2024 Year-End Review An Event-full Year… At the Primary Care Show in Birmingham, our stand was of great interest to hundreds of GPs and Health Care Professionals. Our team shared our resources and knowledge, including diagnosing some visitors on the day! Lipoedema UK volunteer and GP Nicki Mazey delivered a packed-out lecture

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