Personalised Pathways to Healthy Weight

NHS Dorset ICB, along with partners Health Innovation Wessex and Bournemouth University, would like to invite potential partners, providers and innovators to a soft market engagement conversation, with an opportunity to co-design personalised pathways to healthy weight for underserved populations in Dorset.
This work builds on NHS Dorset's commitment to reducing childhood obesity by 2040 (Outcome 2 - NHS Dorset https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/voice/jointforwardplan/outcome-2/) and improving access, experience and outcomes for people living with unhealthy weight and obesity, most recently supporting access to medicated and non-medicated pathways for adults in line with the NICE Technology Appraisal NG246 (Weight management - NHS Dorset https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/health/medicines/weight/)
Our aim is to further transform weight management services in Dorset, by developing and testing an inclusive, community-based model that addresses the persistent inequalities in access, experience and outcomes for underserved populations and tackles the underlying causes of obesity.
Our objectives are to:
• Co-produce and test innovative models of care that integrate pharmacological, digital, and behavioural approaches for healthy weight.
• Reduce health inequalities by improving access to care for underserved populations, including for people with experience of the care system; people with learning disabilities; people with special educational needs and disabilities; and mental health service users.
• Build capacity within our workforce and communities to support sustained healthy lifestyles and self-management.
• Embed a whole-system, data-driven approach to tackling obesity as a major driver of long-term conditions
• Enable real-world evaluation and learning that can inform national policy and future service commissioning.
The Dorset Model proposes to:
• Recruit participants to the programme by pro-actively case finding through our Dorset Insight and Intelligence Service (DiiS) and...