To improve policy, in particular improving access and treatment for people affected by eating disorders and measures that support prevention and early intervention.
1. Eating Disorders Awareness Week
26/02/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Number CDP 2019/0055, 26 February 2019 Eating Disorders Awareness Week By Dr Sarah Barber Tom Powell
2. Reducing stigma around eating disorders
15/10/2018 - Parliamentary Research
Found: 15 October 2018 Reducing stigma around eating disorders By Thomas Powell Rachael Harker Alexander
3. EATING DISORDER DIAGNOSIS
29/10/2018 - Early Day Motions
Found: that access to a diagnosis and treatment for eating disorders should not just depend on an individual's
4. Mandatory training on eating disorders in all schools and care settings
05/04/2021 - Petitions
Found: settings, and schools, on eating disorders, the signs and symptoms for these disorders, and sensitive handling
5. Address the dire situation for ARFID and other atypical eating disorders needs.
03/07/2020 - Petitions
Found: those suffering from ARFID and other atypical eating disorders.
The Government needs to fund education
1. Eating Disorders Awareness Week
05/03/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: move,That this House has considered Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2020.It is a pleasure - Speech Link
2. Eating Disorders: Provision of Care
04/02/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: suffers from anorexia. We have experienced NHS eating disorder services both for children and young people - Speech Link
3. Health: Eating Disorders
19/01/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: My Lords, eating disorders are serious, life-threatening conditions, and we are committed to ensuring - Speech Link
2: health survey suggests that the prevalence of eating disorders is significantly higher than previously assumed - Speech Link
3: noble Baroness is right: the statistics on eating disorders are shocking. The Mental Health of Children - Speech Link
4. Eating Disorders Awareness Week
27/02/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: move,That this House has considered Eating Disorders Awareness week.It is a pleasure to - Speech Link
2: because a close member of my family suffered from an eating disorder. The help that was available was pretty - Speech Link
3: of it. No matter how strong an individual is, an eating disorder is so all-consuming that once it has taken - Speech Link
5. Health: Eating Disorders
07/01/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: investment of an extra £2.3 billion a year by 2023-24, eating disorder services are being ramped up across England - Speech Link
2: people required hospitalisation for eating disorders in England last year. That figure is more than double - Speech Link
3: have taken seriously trying to expand and improve eating disorder services in the country. We have invested - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Wera Hobhouse MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 2093.
Email: wera.hobhouse.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Sophie Clark, Beat, Greenhill House, 90-93 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6BH. Tel: 020 3848 7244
Email: s.clark@beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Secretariat:
Beat acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Group's Website:
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Eating Disorders APPG