Eating Disorders: Health Services

(asked on 4th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many adults aged 18 and over at time of referral were referred to specialist secondary mental health services with a primary reason of referral of eating disorders between April and August in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020; and what proportion of those referrals were made to an eating disorders service.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 6th January 2021

The information requested is in the following tables:

Month

Referrals of people aged 18 and over with primary reason for referral as eating disorders

Referred to eating disorder service

proportion (%)

April 2019

1,399

1,112

79.5%

May 2019

1,524

1,201

78.8%

June 2019

1,486

1,178

79.3%

July 2019

1,704

1,306

76.6%

August 2019

1,556

1,228

78.9%


Month

Referrals of people aged 18 and over with primary reason for referral as eating disorders

Referred to eating disorder service

proportion (%)

April 2020

1,118

842

75.3%

May 2020

1,456

1,164

79.9%

June 2020

1,931

1,575

81.6%

July 2020

2,158

1,707

79.1%

August 2020

Not yet available


Source: Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS), NHS Digital

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