Weight Management in your Health Board
Dear Grampian Health Board,
I would be grateful if you could please answer the following questions with regards to both tier 3 and tier 4 weight management services within your Health Board.
Please answer as many questions as you can - If a question is not relevant, please state N/A.
Tier 3
1. Does your Health Board offer a tier 3 weight management service (or equivalent specialist weight management service)? Is it self-commissioned? If commissioned elsewhere, where (which health board/ social care trust)?
2. For how many patients is your Health Board's tier 3 weight management service (or equivalent specialist weight management service) commissioned for?
3. How many patients have been referred from your Health Board to a tier 3 weight management service (or equivalent specialist weight management service) in the past 12 months?
4. What is the average waiting time to access your Tier 3 weight management service (or equivalent specialist weight management service) in the past 12 months?
Tier 4
5. Does your Health Board have access to a tier 4 weight management service? If so, who Commissions it?
6. How many patients have been referred to your Health Board’s tier 4 weight management service (or equivalent specialist weight management service) in the past 12 months?
7. What is the current number of patients on a waiting list for Tier 4 weight management services in your Health Board?
8. What is the average waiting time to access the Tier 4 weight management service?
OTHER
9. How many patients were referred through the 'local enhanced service for referrals' to weight management services in your Health Board?
Many thanks for taking the time to answer these questions.
Yours faithfully,
Oliver Caswell
Dear Mr Caswell
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Thank you for your email dated 15 February 2023, requesting information
regarding wait weight management. We have recorded this request and are
currently processing it in accordance with the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002.
A response to your request for information is due by 15 March 2023. Please
allow for delivery time.
We will contact you again in due course.
Best wishes,
Lynsey
Senior Information Governance Officer
Information
Governance Team NHS Grampian
Rosehill
House
[1][NHS Grampian request email] Cornhill Road
Aberdeen
Phone : 01224 551319
AB25 2ZG
ext
51319
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Dear Mr Caswell
Please find attached response to your request.
I apologise for the delay which was beyond our direct control.
Regards
Chris
Chris Morrice
Senior Information Governance Officer
NHS Grampian
Rosehill House
ARI
AB25 2ZG
Email: [email address]
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