Generating Income Via the Weight Management Enhanced Service – 2022/2023
Alistair Kumi, First Contact Dietitian (FCD) in Diabetes
Emmer Green Surgery, Primary Care Dietitians
Overview
The weight management enhanced service offered £11.50 to the practice for every qualifying referral to a tier 2 weight management service in Reading
Qualifying referrals:
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BMI 30kg/m (or 27.5 for patients with Black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups) – 40kg/m within the last 2 years
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Diabetes Prevention Programme for those with non-diabetes hyperglycaemia
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Low Calorie Diet
Qualifying Codes on EMIS
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‘Referral to weight management service’
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‘Referral to National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Programme (procedure)’
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‘Referral to total diet replacement programme (procedure)’
Tier 2 Services Available
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Better Health
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Slimming World
A project was completed by the FCD which involved:
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Scoping and data gathering – e.g. searching for eligible patients, requesting clinicians send any consenting patients via EMIS tasks to the FCD
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Mapping of services we could refer into
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Taking on patients who wouldn’t qualify for these services
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Automating self-referrals through Accurx and attaching qualifying codes to those texts
Outcomes
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The PCN reached max cap and therefore achieved full payment for the locally commissioned Weight Management Enhanced Service