Eating Disorders

(asked on 17th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding is available to local clinical commissioning groups to treat people with eating disorders.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 21st July 2017

The Government introduced a new waiting time standard for treatment of children and young people with eating disorders, setting an expectation that by 2020, 95% of those referred will start treatment within one week if the case is urgent and four weeks if the case is non-urgent.

In July 2015, guidance was published on the service model for community eating disorder services for children, young people and their parents/carers that has been shown to improve outcomes, reduce relapse rates and need for inpatient admission.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/cyp/eating-disorders/

The Autumn Statement 2014 included additional funds of £30 million per year over five years to transform services in England for the treatment of children and young people with eating disorders.

The planned spend by clinical commissioning groups on children and young people’s eating disorders in 2017/18 is £46,717,000 which includes £30 million in clinical commissioning group baselines.

NHS England has commissioned the NHS Benchmarking Network to undertake a data collection exercise looking at both inpatient and community based provision for adult eating disorder services. This exercise will assess levels of investment in and access to such services, while considering the profile and skill mix of the supporting workforce. The exercise will include a mapping of commissioned support from the voluntary sector.

Via National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS England has also commissioned the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health to develop implementation guidance for an adult eating disorders pathway, building on the recent NICE Guideline published in May 2017 for the recognition and treatment of adult eating disorders. It is intended that this work will be published in spring 2018 and will be fully informed by the available evidence and the views of experts by experience.

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