Weight Management
Service
Locality: Mid Hampshire, South West
Type of Care: Community, Secondary
Hampshire County Council offer help and support for adults over the age of 18 who want to lose weight and have been identified as obese.
https://www.hants.gov.uk/socialcareandhealth/adultsocialcare/healthyweight
This new service will commence on 1 October 2021 and offers evidence-based:
- Face to Face sessions (located in community venues across Hampshire County)
- Virtual Classes (these sessions will be the same as those in the community but will be led by the instructor online via zoom or teams).
- Shapeup4life App (the programme is same as face to face and the virtual and is available on smart devices and is available 24/7).
This forms an important part of the Hampshire weight management pathway (please find attached referral pathway).
Eligibility criteria
- Adults aged 18+ years with a BMI ≥ 30
- Adults with a BMI ≥ 28 for those from Ethnic Minority Groups or those with long-term conditions, Cancer, Atrial Fibrillation, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Stroke or TIA, Hypertension, Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Musculoskeletal disorders, Diagnosed mental illness.
- Must be resident in the administrative county of Hampshire or registered with a Hampshire GP.
Referral Process
Please make referrals directly to the service in the following way:
- Online secure referral forms available at https://shapeup4lifehampshire.co.uk/
- Email: su4l.hampshire@nhs.net
- Telephone: 023 8218 0287/ 0800 246 5170
Maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding excessive weight gain during pregnancy can mean a healthy lower risk pregnancy and labour, as well as improved long-term health. This programme provides the knowledge and tools to help pregnant women optimise their health through healthy eating and controlled weight gain during pregnancy under the guidance of a Registered Dietitian.
‘The Weigh Ahead’ service is a Specialist Community Weight Management Service for severe and complex
obesity, providing an intensive level of support to patients through a multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
approach.
Referral Criteria
- Patients must be aged 16 or over
- Patients must have a BMI ≥ 35 (with co-morbidities; see list of significant co-morbidities below) OR a BMI ≥ 40 (without co-morbidities)
Patients must have complied with a range of weight loss interventions at Tiers 1 and 2 of the pathway over a 2 year period and have failed to achieve or maintain weight loss goals*
*Please note: All patients who meet the criteria have one opportunity to join and complete the Tier 3 programme. Therefore we would strongly recommend you advise your patients of this prior to referring to our service to establish whether the patient is ready to join the Tier 3 programme at this given time.
Significant co-morbidities we accept could include:
- Established cardiovascular disease
- Type 2 diabetes
- Sleep apnoea
- Severe hypertension
- Severe lower limb major joint disease requiring orthopaedic intervention, otherwise precluded on the basis of a BMI
- Dyslipidaemia
- Patients for whom surgery is dependent on weight loss (i.e. severe lower limb joint disease,polycystic ovaries, and impaired fasting glycaemia).
- We can also accept patients with other related conditions such as metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovarian syndrome and osteoarthritis.
