Wednesday 03 July 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7946
Date Request Received: 21/05/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 04/06/2024 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Weight management services
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Does your Trust provide a Tier 3 weight management service? | |
| Answer To Question 1: No, SFT does not provide Tier 3 Weight Management Services. | |
| Question Number 2: 2. If answer to question 1 was yes: A. How many patients did this service support in 2023/24? B. How many patients are currently on the waiting list for the service? C. What is the current average waiting time in weeks for this service? D. Is the service commissioned to include pharmacotherapy? E. Is your Tier 3 service face-to-face only, or do you provide a digital-only weight management service? | |
| Answer To Question 2: N/A | |
| Question Number 3: If answer to question 1 was no, do you have any plans to provide a Tier 3 service in 2024/25? | |
| Answer To Question 3: The Trust have one organisational strategy and it is the responsibility of divisions and specialties to bring that alive through our operational management system (Improving Together) that cascades the strategy throughout the organisation. Teams for whom obesity and weight management are clinically relevant will be considering how to include action in their operating model. Additionally, these teams will comply with national strategies and directives. Additionally, the Trust has removed significant sugar-containing food stuffs from our vendors. Retail sales of Food and Drink high in salt, fat and sugar. Prior to the development of a CQUIN target for this area of work, the Trust implemented measures to establish and set controls on the range of food and drink, high in salt, fat or sugar, offered for retail sale. These have been in place since 1st July 2016 and apply to all Trust generated retail sales including Trust commissioned vending machines, but exclude 3rd parties operating on our hospital site e.g. WHSmith's, or charitable donations. We have presented this work to and supported Wiltshire Council, with their own obesity strategy From a paediatric service perspective the consultant runs a clinic for high BMI children who have complications with their weight. This is not specifically a Trust wide strategy rather it is specific to paediatrics as a way of managing their patients. Wiltshire Health & Care will be able to provide information on the Tier 2 community services that are offered to Wiltshire patients via the email: whc.informationgovernance@nhs.net North Bristol NHS Trust for Tier 3 and 4 specialist weight management. Please follow link for FOI Team. https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/about-us/information-governance/freedom-information | |
| Question Number 4: Were patients prescribed Wegovy (semaglutide) in your Trust in 2023/24? | |
| Answer To Question 4: No | |
| Question Number 5: If answer to question 4 was yes: A. How many patients were prescribed Wegovy in 2023/24? B. Clinicians from which specialties (e.g. endocrinology, cardiology etc) prescribed Wegovy in 2023/24? | |
| Answer To Question 5: N/A | |
| Question Number 6: Who in your organisation would be responsible for the management of weight management services and/or diabetes? Please provide name, position and contact details where possible. | |
| Answer To Question 6: For Diabetes Services (not Weight Management Services) Jessica Barrett Divisional Manager Speciality Medicine jessica.barrett2@nhs.net | |
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