National Obesity Audit, January 2025 – March 2025 [Management Information]

The National Obesity Audit (NOA) publication series presents a developing set of nationally agreed measures, with the overarching aim to provide a comprehensive picture of activity, access to services and health outcomes of patients using weight management services (WMS) across England. This will allow providers to track, benchmark and improve the quality of these services in future.This release includes data from both Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for Tier 4 WMS, and the Community Services Data Set (CSDS) for Tier 2 and Tier 3 WMS. More information about WMS tiers can be found on the NOA homepage (see Related Links).Disruption relating to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) would seem to have affected the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We have also seen some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients have been admitted to and discharged from hospital. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period.

The National Obesity Audit (NOA) publication series presents a developing set of nationally agreed measures, with the overarching aim to provide a comprehensive picture of activity, access to services and health outcomes of patients using weight management services (WMS) across England. This will allow providers to track, benchmark and improve the quality of these services in future.This release includes data from both Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for Tier 4 WMS, and the Community Services Data Set (CSDS) for Tier 2 and Tier 3 WMS. More information about WMS tiers can be found on the NOA homepage (see Related Links).Disruption relating to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) would seem to have affected the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We have also seen some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients have been admitted to and discharged from hospital. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period.