Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eating disorder (a) beds and (b) services commissioned by NHS England have been delivered by the private sector in each year since 2010.
The information requested for the financial years which are available is shown in the following table.
Financial year | Independent sector children and young people’s eating disorder beds1 as a proportion of the total number of such beds commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement2 | Independent sector adult eating disorder beds as a proportion of the total number of such beds commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement | Independent sector children and young people’s eating disorder service providers as a proportion of the total number of such service providers commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement | Independent sector adult eating disorder service providers as a proportion of the total number of such service providers commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement |
2017/18 | 76% | 40% | 55% | 26% |
2018/19 | 74% | 40% | 50% | 29% |
2019/20 | 78% | 41% | 55% | 29% |
2020/21 | 78% | 41% | 55% | 29% |
2021/22 | 78% | 43% | 55% | 29% |
Source: NHS England and NHS Improvement
Notes:
1 Children with an eating disorder may also be admitted to other children and young people’s mental health service beds with the same therapeutic benefit.
2 NHS England and NHS Improvement commissions in-patient beds and clinical commissioning groups commission community-based services.