Question 1

Yes. This is in the process of being updated

Question 2

Birmingham and Solihull (BSoL) has two Tier 3 specialist weight management services delivered by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and Birmingham Community Healthcare Foundation Trust (BCHC) respectively. These are not commissioned by the ICB.  The ICB with Public Health leads from Birmingham and Solihull have established a system Obesity Group which is tasked with developing an agreed integrated obesity model and pathways for the future. 

The ICB does hold information patient demographics on BSOL referrals into
the NHS Digital Weight Management Service (Tier 2) and these have been
included for April 2024 to March 2025: Note suppression rules have been applied. Referral counts under 8 shown as * and all other values rounded to nearest 5. For other weight management tiers and services, we advise the requestor to contact the provider directly.

a) IMD
1 -2520
2 -775
3 - 520
4 - 225
5 - 155
Unknown - 60 

b) Ethnicity

Asian or Asian British - Any other Asian background 115
Asian or Asian British - Bangladeshi 105
Asian or Asian British - Chinese 10
Asian or Asian British - Indian 305
Asian or Asian British - Pakistani 610
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British - African 265
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British - Any other Black background 115
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British - Caribbean 315
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups - Any other mixed background 30
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups - White and Asian 10
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups - White and Black African 15
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups - White and Black Caribbean 50
Other Ethnicity - Any other ethnic group 135
Unknown 90
White - Any other white background 220
White – British 1820
White – Irish 35 

c) Age

10-19 10
20-29  175
30-39 480
40-49  830
50-59 1220
60-69  1055
70-79 415
80-89  60
90-99 * 

d) Sex

Female 2665
Male 1585 

Question 3

The ICB does not commission any weight management services in
Neighbourhood Health Centres.

Question 4

 The ICB has no specific funding allocation for adult weight management services.  The ICB has received a NHSE financial allocation for the roll out of the NICE TA 1026.