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help achieve a 5% weight loss. Sessions include physical activity and healthy
eating advice. There are around 20 sessions per year for the person to “look
good and feel even better”.
Nutrition and Dietetics Service. Dieticians provide tailor-made advice to people
who want to lose weight but also have other physical health problems. They
provide one-to-one sessions for adults and groups, and classes for children and
families. Dieticians can advice on the full range of treatments available.
BME. This service provides free advice on healthy living and weight management
for people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups. It offers home visits and
group sessions as appropriate to individual needs. It is for anyone in Hull
belonging to a black or minority ethnic group.
Bariatric. This is a bespoke intensive weight loss programme for morbidly obese
adult patients who have requested bariatric surgery as an aid to weight loss. It
offers both one-to-one and group sessions as needed. A full and detailed
assessment is initially carried out to assess the patient needs and to help
produce individual detailed weight loss plans for clients taking part. The 24 week
programme targets a minimum 5% weight loss and for patients to be removed
from the bariatric surgery waiting list. The programme is due to commence on 1
April 2011.
As part of the National Children Measurement Programme school nurse teams
proactively follow-up all children who are not a healthy weight and offer a range of
support and advice, as well as signposting to other services.
The Eat Well Do Well Service offers a range of personalised and group programmes for
children who are not a healthy weight within a family approach. This programme is due
to be decommissioned at the end of March 2011, but NHS Hull is in the process of
commissioning a replacement service.
There is also a paediatric community dietetic service, and the service specification is
currently (as at February 2011) been finalised.
8.5.10 Evaluation of Weight Loss Programmes
8.5.10.1 Geographical Spread of Adults Using Weight Loss Programmes
In order to evaluate that people using the service were distributed throughout Hull, a
series of maps have been produced which show the geographical distribution of those
people accessing the various weight loss programmes as at November 2010. When the
single point of access telephone number was in use, details of number of adults using
the possible referral services was noted together with the postcode of the individual. The
distribution of referrals are given in Figure 105, where each star represents the
postcode of a person referred into a service. There may be more than one person at
each point. It can be seen that there is a wide distribution across Hull with all wards
covered. The main areas where there are few „points‟ are areas which are not
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