Written question asked by Richard Taylor (Independent (affiliation)) on Thursday, 19 November 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 November 2009. It was answered by Baroness Merron (Labour) on Monday, 30 November 2009 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Obesity: Health Services
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Clinical Guideline 43: Obesity; and what support has been provided to assist (a) practitioners and (b) commissioners in implementing the guideline.
- Answer
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Compliance with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines is a developmental standard for national health service organisations and they are expected to work towards their full implementation over time using available resources. NICE has published a range of tools to support implementation of its clinical guideline on obesity including a commissioning guide on bariatric surgery and a costing tool to better assess the cost to implement the guidance locally.As part of the implementation of our obesity strategy we have published several documents to assist both practitioners and commissioners to prevent and manage obesity. This includes "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Child Weight Management Programme and Training Providers Framework"; "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies"; and "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Commissioning Weight Management Services for Children and Young People". These publications have been placed in the Library.These publications refer to the NICE guidelines, so that people who are involved in developing strategies to prevent and manage obesity are aware of available guidelines in this area.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 501 c545W; 301142
- Session
- 2009-10
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- Subjects
- Health services Obesity
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