Saturday 04 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7730
Date Request Received: 07/02/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 08/03/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Obesity and Weight Management Strategy
Request Category: Health
| Question Number 1: Do you have a Trust-wide obesity and weight management strategy? If so, how is this implemented (for example, through delivery of Tier 3 obesity services of the NHS Tiered Care Weight Management Pathway)? | |
| Answer To Question 1: The Trust have one organisational strategy and it is the responsibility of divisions and specialties to bring that alive through our operational management system (Improving Together) that cascades the strategy throughout the organisation. Teams for whom obesity and weight management are clinically relevant will be considering how to include action in their operating model. Additionally, these teams will comply with national strategies and directives. Additionally, the Trust has removed significant sugar-containing food stuffs from our vendors. Retail sales of Food and Drink high in salt, fat and sugar. Prior to the development of a CQUIN target for this area of work, the Trust implemented measures to establish and set controls on the range of food and drink, high in salt, fat or sugar, offered for retail sale. Please find attached a copy of these - last updated in October 2023. Once the CQUIN targets were published (2016/17), the Trust mapped our work against these. These have been in place since 1st July 2016 and apply to all Trust generated retail sales including Trust commissioned vending machines, but exclude 3rd parties operating on our hospital site e.g. WHSmith's, or charitable donations. We have presented this work to and supported Wiltshire Council, with their own obesity strategy From a paediatric service perspective the consultant runs a clinic for high BMI children who have complications with their weight. This is not specifically a Trust wide strategy rather it is specific to paediatrics as a way of managing their patients. | |
| Question Number 2: Details of staff training to deliver these strategies | |
| Answer To Question 2: There is no specific weight management training on MLE. Individual departments would beresponsible for commissioning/delivering such training where applicable. | |
| Question Number 3: Details of any current training for clinical staff in the area of weight discrimination, weight stigma, weight bias and/or obesity awareness | |
| Answer To Question 3: Nothing specifically on the Trust Managed learning environment (MLE). Some teams may address these learning areas as part of their 'in service training' (IST) programme but this would be specific to the team and the clinician organising the IST. | |
| Question Number 4: The number of complaints made to the Trust where weight discrimination, bias or stigma was mentioned in the period 1st January 2014 to 31st December 2023, | |
| Answer To Question 4: 2 complaints received regarding weight discrimination. | |
| Question Number 5: Any planned or current actions in response to the Health and Social Care Committee report on 'The Impact of Body Image of Mental and Physical Health'. | |
| Answer To Question 5: As a Trust we do not have this | |
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