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Greater Manchester

Tier 2:

Services available are:

  • The Tier Two Adult Weight Management Service is delivered by Slimming World. The provider offers a referral service that can be utilised by GPs and other Health Professionals.

  • Manchester residents aged 16 and above receive a free voucher to access a twelve-week intervention at any of 200 Slimming World groups in the city, seven days a week.

  • All referrals are triaged via our Be Well Social Prescribing Service. 

Tier 3:

Services available are:

  • The Adult Tier Three Weight Management Service is delivered by More Life UK. It is commissioned on a GM Footprint with Salford CCG as the lead commissioner. Manchester City Council buy into the service with Stockport CCG, Bury CCG and Tameside and Glossop CCG.

  • MoreLife UK are based with the National Institute for Obesity Studies at Leeds Beckett University. The Obesity Institute have provided Government guidance on the development of ‘whole system approaches’ to reducing obesity.

  • Referral into the Tier Three service is by GP only.

Tier 4:

  • Greater Manchester are currently working with our Manchester Hospitals Foundation Trust (MFT) Medicines Management and GP colleagues to introduce GLP-1s.