Weight Management PQS

Domain 3 – Healthy living support; Quality criterion: Weight management

• As you are aware this domain requires you to:

‘ Pharmacies must support those who wish to lose weight through advice and referral to the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme or Local Authority funded tier 2 weight management services (where the individual meets the criteria for referral).

To gain the maximum number of points for this criterion (1 point for a band 1 pharmacy or 20 points for a band 2-6 pharmacy – see section 3 for further information), the pharmacy must have referred at least four patients (who meets the criteria for referral) to either a Local Authority funded tier 2 weight management service or the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme between 10th October 2022 and 31st March 2023’

The NHS digital weight Management programme = https://www.england.nhs.uk/digital-weight-management/

• There is a Sefton Local Authority funded tier 2 weight management service available https://www.activelifestyles-sefton.co.uk/weigh-forward/

Email us: active.workforce@sefton.gov.uk. Call us: 0151 934 2079

• Other support services= http://www.livingwellsefton.org.uk/