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. Government review of NHS eating disorder services
14/06/2021 - Early Day Motions
Found: lack of a coherent and effective approach to eating disorders in the UK; notes the impact of calorie labelling
3. 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
4. PACAC inquiry into eating disorders: government response
13/08/2019 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: follow
-up: Too many
avoidable deaths from eating
disorders
Presented to Parliament
by
the Secretary
5. 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
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. 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
3. 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
4. Eating Disorder Services: Referrals
17/05/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: serious, life-threatening conditions. We recognise eating disorder services are facing increased demand from - Speech Link
2: patients starting treatment for urgent cases of eating disorders, but this compares to 353 at this time last - Speech Link
3: the noble Baroness has said, we know that eating disorders among children and young people have increased - 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
asked by: Andrea Jenkyns
09/12/2020
... what assessment his Department made of the potential effect of (a) mandatory calorie counts on menus and (b) other measures in the Tackling obesity: empowering adults and children to live healthier lives policy paper on people with eating disorders prior to the publication of that policy paper. 2. Eating Disorders
asked by: Jim Shannon
12/10/2020
... how many people have been diagnosed with an eating disorder in the last three years. 3. Eating Disorders
asked by: Ian Mearns
20/04/2021
... what steps he plans to take to (a) reduce the number of people with eating disorders and (b) tackle the stigma attached to people who suffer from conditions such as bulimia and anorexia. 4. Eating Disorders
asked by: Ian Mearns
20/04/2021
... what assessment he has made of the potential effect of covid-19 restrictions on the prevalence of diagnosed eating disorders in the UK. 5. Eating Disorders
asked by: Ian Mearns
23/04/2021
... (b) treatment and (c) support for people suffering from eating disorders in the UK.
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Joined: 19th June 2019Departed: 5th November 2019