Weight Management in your Health Board
Dear Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),
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
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Our ref: FOI/354
17/02/2023
By Email: [FOI #950077 email]
Dear Oliver Caswell
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Our ref: FOI/354
01/03/2023
By Email: [FOI #950077 email]
Dear Oliver Caswell
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your request for information. Please find attached the
Trust's response.
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holds are governed by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, the Data
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Further to your request, please find enclosed the Trust’s response.
Trust decisions in relation to the release of information that the Trust
holds are governed by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, the Data
Protection Act (DPA)/GDPR 2018 and other pieces of associated legislation.
If you are dissatisfied with the Trust’s response, you may request an
Internal Review… in writing or by email to the Data Protection Officer,
Mrs Nicola Lyons, at the addresses below.
[1][email address]
Or
Mrs Nicola Lyons
Data Protection Officer
Information Governance Department
Route Complex
8e Coleraine Road
Ballymoney
Co Antrim
BT53 6BP
I trust that the information provided is helpful to you. However, if I
can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Irene Jardine
Information Governance Officer
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Irene Jardine
Information Governance Officer
Tel: 028 276 61415 (ext 363415)
Causeway House
8e Coleraine Road
BALLYMONEY BT53 6BP
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