Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to fund new Tier 3 Weight Management Clinics for (a) adults and (b) children.
NHS England and NHS Improvement is investing £3 million in 2021/22 and a further £6 million in 2022/23 to mobilise 15 new Tier 3 clinics for children and young people. These services will provide holistic support to manage complications from severe obesity.
This is in addition to £4 million of new funding for 2021/22 to support the expansion of adult specialist weight management services and bariatric surgeries, including working with Integrated Care Systems to map the existing provision of services.