Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of medical training for the treatment of eating disorders.

No specific assessment has been made.

However, the Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with Health Education England to improve training for general practitioners and with the General Medical Council to ensure eating disorders are included amongst outcome measures for newly qualified clinicians.

NHS England and NHS Improvement and Health Education England are also working with partners to procure training courses to increase the capacity of the existing workforce to provide evidence-based treatment.