Good for you
@ally1.
Morbidly obese is not a nice expression, but under today's guidelines certain weights are more likely to increase an earlier morbid state!! Hurts to think of that terminology but actually it seems to have had a positive effect on your thinking??
A careplan can be requested by any patient of the nhs. However, 2% of all Patients at a GP practice must now have an official care plan. GP's identify these people in different ways. Our practice opted to have all residents in our 9 care homes as the persons to have care plans. Another GP Practice has people that have had more than 3 unplanned admissions to hospitals...
A care plan is a joint commitment between patient and GP to do everything they can to stabilise or improve health and wellbeing of a patient. It is there for persons that are vulnerable through ill health and finding illnesses (whether mental or physical) difficult to cope with and thus impacting on their quality of life.
The words above are my terminology. For exact details go to nhs choices website and search "care plans".
It means that for Ally she and her health team have to commit to having a monthly weigh in etc, review of blood pressure, bg readings and meds. Ongoing the care plan will itself be reviewed as well.