Weight Management in your Health Board
Dear Greater Glasgow NHS 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
FOI Request 18905 Weight Management
Thank you for your enquiry of 15 February 2022 requesting information as
set out in your email below.
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Dear Mr Caswell
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
FOI Request : Our ref 18905 : Weight Management : Response
Further to your request for information received on 15 February 2023, I am
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Sent: 21 February 2023 09:05
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Subject: FOI Request 18905 Weight Management
Dear Mr Caswell
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
FOI Request 18905 Weight Management
Thank you for your enquiry of 15 February 2022 requesting information as
set out in your email below.
We are dealing with this under our procedures for requests made under the
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, and a response will be issued
as soon as possible or within 20 working days as set out in the Act.
If you have any queries about the progress of your request, please contact
me at the details below quoting our reference 18905.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer | NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
When replying please use [4][NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde request email]
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