Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that there is a comprehensive strategy for meeting the (a) clinical and (b) care needs of people with eating disorders.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Department is committed to working closely with NHS England to ensure that people with an eating disorder get the care and treatment they need, when they need it. The Department will focus on improving the performance of the existing waiting time standards for Children and Young Peoples’ Eating Disorder services.
This will be supported by recruiting 8,500 additional mental health staff, ensuring every young person has access to a specialist mental health professional at school, and setting up Young Futures hubs in every community, offering open access mental health services for young people.
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