Weight Management Strategy

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Partners across Suffolk and North East Essex would like to see the development of an integrated strategic plan and business case for weight management services across partners within SNEE ICS. Work has already been undertaken in recent months to take stock of the challenges SNEE faces in respect of weight management and explored some of the opportunities available to us to take steps to address this including the upcoming recommissioning of Tier 2 services in Suffolk and need to review the commissioning of our Tier 3 and 4 services across SNEE. This is in an environment of a whole system approach to weight management including prevention and action to address the obesogenic environment. Lot 1: We require a partner to work with us to develop a strategic plan for weight management in Suffolk and North East Essex with an aim to create an integrated Tier 1-4 service model for our ICS building on existing work and identified priorities. The aim is to develop a purposeful and prioritised plan for the next five years that clearly communicates our shared intent and provides a single united programme for partners in the system to work towards and deliver. The plan must give appropriate weight to a pan-ICS, two county and Alliance level perspective as well as taking account of the fact that Suffolk is split across two Integrated Care Systems (ICS’) and Essex across three ICS’ so that delivery, monitoring impact and achievement can be tracked at both countywide, Alliance and where appropriate ICS level. The intention is that the plan will keep us all focused, on track, and underpin collaborative working over the coming years.This is not a call for competition at this time. We are looking for interested parties to contact us should they wish to work with us to develop this requirement. It is likely that a quotation process will be undertaken during January 2022 - to be considered please contact sarah.skilton@suffolk.nhs.uk. Responses required by Friday 7th January 2022. Additional information: Please see above.