Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of training for doctors on (a) recognising and (b) treating eating disorders.

Individual medical schools set their own undergraduate medical curriculum that must meet the standards set by the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC, at the request of the Department, held a roundtable on 21 November 2019 to improve educational knowledge and skill in the recognition and treatment of eating disorders. The GMC has since been working with stakeholders to deliver workstreams identified at the roundtable, largely focused on improving training resources at all levels of medical education.