Question 1

No. NHS Greater Manchester (NHS GM) does not have an obesity policy.

Question 2

NHS GM does not hold this level of data; only the providers do.

Question 3

NHS Greater Manchester ICB (NHS GM) was formed on 1st July 2022 following the merger of the 10 former NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) for Greater Manchester. These were NHS Bolton CCG, NHS Bury CCG, NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG, NHS Manchester CCG, NHS Oldham CCG, NHS Salford CCG, NHS Stockport CCG, NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG, NHS Trafford CCG and NHS Wigan Borough CCG.

Commissioning responsibility for services previously commissioned by these CCGs transferred to NHS GM, with the exception of patients registered with a Glossop based GP, for whom commissioning responsibility transferred instead to NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

Prior to the formation of NHS GM, each CCG commissioned its own weight management service at a CCG level. Since the formation of NHS GM, these contracts have continued to be commissioned at a locality level.
There are currently no commissioned weight management services being delivered in Neighbourhood Health Centres or equivalent structures.  NHS GM is in the process of developing a new model of care for weight management however the delivery model has not yet been finalised.

Question 4

Please see attached table for funding flows. In the table, certain locality services are commissioned as part of a block contract from an NHS Trust or Foundation Trust. Under these contracts, services are commissioned alongside a range of other services from the same provider, and it is not possible to separately identify the cost specifically related to weight management services.

Budgets are not specifically ring fenced for that particular provider or service, however, NHS GM is obliged to pay for services in line with contract terms for the contracts it has entered in to.