FOI 2025/1480

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information about the below:

1. Neighbourhood Health and Innovation

a) Please indicate whether any weight management services are being delivered in, or planned for, Neighbourhood Health Centres or equivalent neighbourhood health structures within your ICS.

b) 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.

2. Funding flows and the Neighbourhood Health Model

a) 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.

b) 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.

1.

a) NHS Greater Manchester ICB (NHS GM) was formed on 1^st 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.

b) No partnerships have been noted specifically in respect of weight management services. NHS GM does however work in partnership with Health Innovation Manchester (who are hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust) supporting the redesign of weight management services in Greater Manchester

2.

a) The table below lists the budget for each locality’s commissioned weight management service. Note, the commissioned services may be accessible by adults or children or young people, and a split to only include the costs of an adults service is not available.

* In the above 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.

b) No decisions have yet been made.