Eating Disorders: Rehabilitation

(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to introduce residential services for sufferers of eating disorders who do not meet the minimum threshold for inpatient care.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 16th June 2020

Inpatient treatment should be a last resort and the Government is currently improving care in the community. Decisions about inpatient care should be based on clinical need and should involve short and purposeful stays, close to home and linked with quality community services to improve patient outcomes.

We announced in 2014 that we would invest £150 million to expand eating disorder community-based care for children and young people, and as a result 70 dedicated new or extended community services are now either open or in development. These are designed to give young people with eating disorders and self-harm early access to services in their communities with properly trained teams, including extended access to talking therapies.

Last autumn, we announced that 12 areas in England would receive over £70 million of transformation funding in 2019/20 and 2020/21 to test new integrated models of primary and community mental health care for adults. Eight of these sites plan to implement innovative service models that will improve access and quality for adults and older adults with eating disorders in line with new national guidance on adult eating disorder care.

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