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Freedom of Information – Response – 5497

Please note all questions have been responded as Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board. We are unable to respond on behalf of the whole system. Additional responses from our system partners will need to be submitted to them individually.

  1. Does Suffolk and Northeast Essex ICS have an obesity treatment pathway for patients, and please could you share a copy of this policy?

Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board leads the commissioning of obesity treatment services for patients registered to a GP Practice in Suffolk and north east Essex. This includes specialist dietary advice, medical and surgical interventions. A new, local and integrated Weight Management and Complex Obesity Service will be open to new referrals from April 2025. We are unable to share the policy for this service at this time. 

  1. If Suffolk and Northeast Essex ICS does not currently have an obesity treatment pathway, has Suffolk and north east Essex ICS held meetings regarding the development of an obesity strategy and:

 The ICB does commission obesity treatment services. We do not have an obesity strategy; we have a Joint Forward Plan which is our ICB Strategic Plan.

a)    Please could you share the minutes related to these meetings?

 N/A, the ICB does commission obesity treatment services. Information is available in the Joint Forward Plan which can be found at: Joint Forward Plan 2024 - 2029. Please note that the plan is currently being refreshed. The refresh happens on an annual basis.

 (b) Please could you share an anticipated timeline for development, delivery and implementation of an obesity treatment pathway at Suffolk and Northeast Essex ICS?

The service is currently treating patients that were repatriated from a previously commissioned provider. The new SNEE Integrated Weight Management and Complex Obesity Service will open April 2025.

  1. Which individual at Suffolk and Northeast Essex ICS holds the senior responsible officer role for the development, delivery and implementation of an obesity treatment pathway at Suffolk and Northeast Essex ICS?

 The Director of Strategic Programmes, Richard Watson