Decision Maker: Corporate Director of Health and Adult Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To seek approval to extend the Adult Weight
Management Service for a further six months.
To approve the extension of the current Adult
Weight Management Service contracts for Ryedale, Scarborough and
Selby for a further 6 months (from 1 July 2024 to 31 December 2024)
and the Children and Families Weight Management [pilot] Service is
further extended for the same timeframe. This brings decisions for
the future of the service in line with the Strategic Leisure Review
for the future of leisure and well-being services. The decision was
made in consultation with the Director of Public Health and
Executive Member
The proposal has been approved to ensure the
aligning of weight management transformation and Strategic Leisure
Review planning. It is proposed that the current Adult Weight
Management Service (AWMS) contract is extended for a further 6
months. The AWMS contract extensions can be funded from the current
core allocated budget as planned.
In addition to the alignment of strategic leisure review
timeframes, the extended 6 month period will allow more time for
analysis of engagement insight and framing of a new service
model.
AWMS provision contracts would only need to be extended for Selby,
Scarborough and Ryedale. All other areas became
‘in-house’ from April 2023 and will be delivered under
current allocated funding arrangements.
The original contracts, taken as individual lots, fell below the
threshold (under the Light Touch Regime). The Harrogate lot was the
only one that was above threshold. However, taken as a whole the
contract values certainly exceed the threshold. Therefore, it is
prudent to consider that these contracts fall within the scope of
the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR
2015”).
The aspiration for future provision is an all-age service for North
Yorkshire, which continues to further evolve in line with recent
literature, weight-neutral and compassionate approaches, and with
better intelligence on local communities that have the greatest
health needs and/or have been under-represented in weight
management service provision to date
Not to extend the AWMS contract was considered
but without the proposed extension and maintaining the current
approach to the Adult Weight Management Service, we would need to
commence new procurement practices from June 2023 at a time when we
are not clear what the future service requirements are.
To do nothing, the current contracts would expire leaving no
service provision in the areas of Selby, Scarborough and Ryedale.
Services would continue to be provided in the Craven, Hambleton,
Harrogate and Richmondshire areas creating unequal access to
services across the county.
The Children and Families pilot service programme would run to 30
June 2024. The pilot service will be evaluated but it is
potentially too early prior to finalised review of the AWMS. A
robust evaluation of the Children and Families pilot Service is
required if we are to reshape the Adult Weight Management Service
into all age.
Publication date: 25/07/2023
Date of decision: 21/07/2023
Effective from: 02/08/2023
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