Throughout October-November 2025, the Secretariat conducted a new FOI campaign into Weight Management Services across England’s ICSs. We asked:

1. Does your ICS have a current obesity treatment pathway or equivalent policy? If yes, please share the latest version.

2. For the most recent full financial year, please provide data on referrals to NHS-commissioned adult weight management services (all tiers), broken down by:

   a)      Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintile

   b)     Ethnicity

   c)      Age

   d)     Sex

3. Please indicate whether any weight management services are being delivered in, or planned for, Neighbourhood Health Centres or equivalent neighbourhood health structures. Please provide details of any partnerships with your local Health Innovation Network (HIN), or similar innovation/academic health science networks, relating to weight management services.

4. Please provide details of your Integrated Care Board’s (ICB) current funding allocation for adult weight management services, including any local commissioning arrangements. Please specify whether any of these budgets are ring-fenced. Please indicate whether funding flows or commissioning responsibilities for weight management services are expected to change under the Neighbourhood Health Model, and if so, provide details of planned timelines or anticipated impacts.

Please see ICSs’ answers to our questions below.