Eating Disorders: Children

(asked on 6th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children undertook treatment for an eating disorder in each (a) Clinical Commissioning Group area and (b) NHS Trust in each of the last 36 months.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 13th September 2018

The number of children and young people who started treatment for an eating disorder in each clinical commissioning group area and National Health Service provider is collected by NHS England on a quarterly basis since April 2016. This data is provided in the attached tables.

The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone with an eating disorder has access to timely treatment and have established a waiting time standard to improve access to eating disorders services for children and young people so that, by 2020/21, 95% of children with an eating disorder will receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and within four weeks for routine cases.

Latest available waiting times figures for children and young people with an eating disorder indicate that NHS England is on track to meet that standard by 2020/21 with Quarter 1 (April to June 2018) data showing 74.7% of all patients starting urgent treatment within one week and 81.2%% of patients starting routine treatment within four weeks.

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