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Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Commissioning weight management services for children and young people

  • Document type:
    Guidance
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    7 November 2008
  • Gateway reference:
    10810
  • Pages:
    114
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This guide has been developed to support local areas in commissioning weight management services for children and young people. It is designed to reflect the move towards world class commissioning and joint commissioning of children’s services, and complements the existing suite of Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives publications.

The guide includes an introduction setting out the wider context and additional plans to provide support to commissioners in this area, and 15 separate tools covering key steps in the commissioning process.

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