Obesity and Excess Weight - FOI Response Register

FoI Number
2024-108
Subject
Obesity and Excess Weight
Date Received
13/05/2024
Request and Response
  1. Can you please confirm the following details of the lead individuals (Team Leaders, Directors, Department Heads, and Programme Managers etc) responsible for obesity and excess weight strategy and commissioning within your Health Board?

Names     

Job Titles

Email Addresses

Claire Bisset – Dietetic Team Lead

Lisa Truffit- Specialist Weight management Dietitian delivering diabetes remission

Stefanie Leask – Dietitian, leading group tier 3 weight management support

Fern Jamieson- Health improvement practitioner,

Kathleen Carolan Director of Nursing & Acute Services

Susan Laidlaw, Director of Public Health

Emails can be communicated through shared email addresses and would be filtered to the relevant individual as appropriate.

shet.dietetics@nhs.scot

shet.healthyshetland@nhs.scot

shet.communications@nhs.scot

shet.publichealthshetland@nhs.scot

 

  1. Can you please confirm the current (2024/25) annual budget for weight management services for your NHS Board? 

This remote and rural board has a small budget making it difficult to stipulate partial funding on individual elements of services and is instead provided for as part of the core budget making it difficult to provide specific figures. The figures noted below is the Scottish Government allocation

  1. How much of this budget is committed to adult services?

 £131,600

  1. How much of this budget is committed to children’s services?

£65,800

  1. How much of this budget is committed to Tier 1 services?

      Tier 1 service is funded separately temporarily.

  1. How much of this budget is committed to Tier 2 services?

 Paediatric tier 2 and 3 are provided under the same support and budget as needed

Adult- £64,000

  1. How much of this budget is committed to Tier 3 services?

Paediatric tier 2 and 3 are provided under the same support and budget as needed

Adult – £1,700

Please note the bulk of the funding provided by SG provides diabetes remission services as stipulated by G guidance and the remaining fund is used to support weight management services.

  1. How much of this budget is committed to Tier 4 services?

 Tier 4 services are delivered by NHS Grampian and funded as appropriate dependent on MDT discussion on individual cases and are not part of SG allocations.

  1. Can you please confirm the anticipated annual (2025/2026) budget for weight management in your Health Board?

The funding specifically allocated to weight management services is provided by the Scottish Government and we are unable to clarify what this figure may be in the following financial year.

  1. How much of this budget will be committed to adult services?
  2. How much of this budget will be committed to children’s services?        
  3. How much of this budget will be committed to Tier 1 services?
  4. How much of this budget will be committed to Tier 2 services?
  5. How much of this budget will be committed to Tier 3 services?
  6. How much of this budget will be committed to Tier 4 services?
  7. Can you please confirm if your Health Board currently commissions any non-NHS / external providers to deliver weight management services?

Any weight management services available are delivered locally

If you have, can you please confirm:

The name of the service provider

What Tier(s) of services do they provide?

What the annual budget for their contract is?

What KPIs do they work towards? What target / priority groups are they required to engage with?

What are the start and end dates of their current contract?