Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to accept all of the recommendations in the independent Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report, Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients.

The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report ‘Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients’.

In response to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report, NHS England has convened a working group with NHS Improvement, Health Education England, the Department and other partners to co-ordinate actions being taken in response to the recommendations, taking them into account in planning for improvements to adult eating disorder services. The national clinical director for mental health at NHS England, Professor Tim Kendall, is chairing this working group and progress will be reported to the NHS England Board.