Weight Management in your Health Board
Dear Southern 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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We acknowledge receipt of your request.
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Yours faithfully
Information Governance Team
17.02.2023 Our Ref: FOI 1504
Dear Mr Caswell
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
I acknowledge your request which was received on 15.02.2023 requesting information held by the Trust.
Your request is currently being addressed and if approved we will aim to provide you with the information requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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Head of Information Governance
Southern Health & Social Care Trust
Ferndale
Bannvale Site
10 Moyallen Road
Gilford
BT63 5JX
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Yours sincerely
Karen Harrison
Information Governance Officer
Dear Mr Caswell
Please see response attached in respect of your recent Freedom of
Information request to the Southern Health & Social Care Trust.
Kind Regards
Karen Harrison
Information Governance Dept
Southern Health & Social Care Trust
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