NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) have established the NOA to bring together comparable data from across the different types of adult and children’s Weight Management Services (WMS) across England to drive improvement in care for the benefit of those living with overweight and obesity.
All WMS and interventions (for weight loss, maintenance of a healthy weight, or a decreased rate of weight gain) in England are in scope of the audit. This includes services currently described as Tiers 2, 3 and 4 (including adults’, children’s and pregnancy-related) that are NHS or local authority commissioned. Privately funded or voluntary (i.e. non-commissioned) services are also able to submit data to the audit if they choose to. Universally available interventions classified as Tier 1 can also be included voluntarily where they are able to provide individual-level data.
The route of data submission for Tier 2 and Tier 3 weight management services is through the Community Service Dataset.
Data collected from Adult Tier 2 weight management services funded by the adult weight management services grant 2021 to 2022 (Grant number 31/5440) is submitted directly to OHID via the minimum data set (MDS). We understand that some local authorities have grant extensions. Data submission to OHID will continue through the grant extension period, with final submissions being made by the end of July 2022. For services funded by new monies, data will be submitted via the CSDS. Therefore, there will be a short period of submitting to both collections, but this will be for different service participants rather than duplication. Note, children's weight management services are continuing to be collected through the OHID Minimum Data Set.