Eating Disorders
(asked on 7th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency and geographical distribution of NHS specialist eating disorder clinics.
Information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table and is from reference costs, which are the average cost to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients.
Estimated cost of specialist eating disorder clinics to NHS providers in England, 2011-12 and 2012-13, £ million
Year | Total cost |
2008-09 | 52.6 |
2009-10 | 61.3 |
2010-11 | 69.2 |
2011-12 | 41.4 |
2012-13 | 59.8 |
Notes:
1. Costs are reported for adult, and child and adolescent, eating disorder services.
2. Costs relate to activity occurring in admitted patient, outpatient and community settings.
Specialist Eating Disorders Units for both Adults and Children have been, since April 2013, commissioned by NHS England. Specialist eating disorder services for children are part of Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
On 10 July, NHS England published the findings of its recent report on Tier 4 CAMHS. NHS England is currently working on a review of specialist commissioning. This will include both specialised children's and adult mental health services.
Source: Reference costs, Department of Health