Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services

(asked on 5th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government’s commitment to investing £70 million into weight management services, what assessment he has made of potential merits of offering specialist, evidence-based support for people living with a binge-eating disorder.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 10th March 2021

We recognise that specialist weight management services provide a critical part of the weight management pathway, in accordance with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance. The £70 million investment in weight management services will enable up to 700,000 adults to have access to support that can help them to achieve a healthy weight, including specialist clinical support.

For children and young people, there is a programme in place to promote early access to effective, NICE approved treatments for eating disorders, working in partnership with children, young people and their families. For adults, the ‘Adult Eating Disorders: Community, Inpatient and Intensive Day Patient Care’ guidance was published in August 2019, emphasising that eating disorder services should provide evidence-based treatment, care and support for the full range of eating disorder diagnoses, including binge eating disorder.

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