Eating Disorders: Children and Young People

(asked on 4th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of treatment meeting the Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People in (a) each region and (b) the UK.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 11th February 2020

We have introduced two waiting times for children and young people: for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases, and for 56% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral. We are on target to meet these aims by 2020/21.

Quarterly data and trend indicators on these two waiting time targets is available through the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard. The Dashboard which brings together quarterly local, regional and national data across mental health services to measure the performance of the National Health Service in delivering its plans.

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