Freedom of Information Team
Our Ref: FOI/2020.603/JM
The Oast
Date: 16 October 2020
Unit D, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane
Barming
Mr E Fryer
Maidstone
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
ME16 9NT
Phone: 01622 211900
Dear Mr Fryer
Email: xxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx
Web: www.kentcht.nhs.uk
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
Thank you for your email dated 15 October 2020, requesting information regarding Tier 3 weight
management.
Please find detailed below a summary of your request, together with our response.
Summary of your request:
I am seeking to receive information regarding the Tier 3 Weight Management service that
is available to your patients. Could I request answers to the below questions: What is the name of the Tier 3 Weight Management Service available to your patients?
4 healthy weight is tier 3 weight management service which is commissioned by Kent County
Council (KCC).
Do you commission the Tier 3 Weight Management Service?
If not, who does?
No, see above
What number of patients have been referred to this service in the last 12 months of
available data?
This would be data that would be held by KCC who can be contacted using the following details:
Email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Write to: Information Resilience and Transparency Team, Kent County Council, Room 2.87,
Sessions House, County Hall, Maidstone. ME14 1XQ
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal
review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of
the response to your original letter and should be addressed to:
xxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.
Please remember to quote the reference number in any future communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly
to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner’s offices will be
closed for the foreseeable future, and are therefore unable to receive correspondence via post
but can be contacted at
https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/. Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Act Team
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust copyright
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