Health services

Tender description

The role of the healthy weight service in Oxfordshire is to support and enable adults and families to achieve and maintain a healthy weight by offering a range of universal prevention initiatives at tier 1 and adult lifestyle weight management services at tier 2. The service will work with system partners across the pathway to ensure an efficient use of resources and a streamlined pathway of care between tiers 1-4. Reducing health inequalities by working with disadvantaged communities and individuals, supporting vulnerable groups and developing the service to ensure it meets the needs of Black and Asian ethnic groups are also key elements of this service. We are aiming to increase the number of adults, children and families who are a healthy weight as part of the whole systems approach to healthy weight in Oxfordshire. The role of the healthy weight service in Oxfordshire is to support and enable adults and families to achieve and maintain a healthy weight by offering a range of universal prevention initiatives at tier 1 and adult lifestyle weight management services at tier 2. The service will work with system partners across the pathway to ensure an efficient use of resources and a streamlined pathway of care between tiers 1-4. Reducing health inequalities by working with disadvantaged communities and individuals, supporting vulnerable groups and developing the service to ensure it meets the needs of Black and Asian ethnic groups are also key elements of this service. We are aiming to increase the number of adults, children and families who are a healthy weight as part of the whole systems approach to healthy weight in Oxfordshire. See procurement documents for full details. The contract value includes the optional 12 months after the initial 3-year period.