Eating Disorders: Diagnosis

(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to implement NICE guidelines on the diagnosis of eating disorders.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 21st January 2020

Clinical commissioning groups and providers of healthcare are expected to have regard to national guidance, including National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, and are responsible for developing their own local approaches to its implementation, taking into account local priorities and needs.

NICE’s guideline on eating disorders: recognition and treatment makes it clear that a person’s body mass index is just one of the factors that should be taken into account to determine whether to offer treatment for an eating disorder, but that it should not be used on its own.

This is reiterated in guidance issued to commissioners and providers of adult eating disorder services in August 2019 with the aim of improving both timely access to, and the quality of evidence-based treatment in eating disorder services for adults and older adults. This is available at the following link:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/aed-guidance.pdf

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