Weight Management in your Health Board
Dear Betsi Cadwaladr University 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
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Dear Oliver Caswell
Further to your recent request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, please find attached our response.
Cofion Cynnes / Kind Regards
Keeley Howard
Information Governance Co-Ordinator
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