Asked by: Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to improve (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of eating disorders.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Under the NHS Long Term Plan, we will invest almost £1 billion extra in community mental health care for adults with severe mental illness by 2023/24. This will give 370,000 adults with severe mental illnesses, including eating disorders, greater choice and control over their care and support them to live well in their communities. As part of this we are expanding community eating disorder services capacity, including crisis care and intensive home treatment.
Since 2016, investment in children and young people's community eating disorder services has risen every year, with an extra £54 million per year from 2022/23. This extra funding will enhance the capacity of community eating disorder teams across the country.
NHS England is refreshing guidance on children and young people's eating disorders, including to increase the focus on early identification and intervention. Updated guidance will highlight the importance of improved integration between dedicated community eating disorder services, wider children and young people's mental health services, schools, colleges and primary care to improve awareness, provide expert advice and improve support for children and young people presenting with problems with eating, whilst ensuring swift access to specialist support as soon as an eating disorder is suspected.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) experiencing trauma and abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, violence, anger, issues with food and eating - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) disorders that I outlined, which are more prevalent among girls.Continuing education for those in secure - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) It is certainly welcome because the extent to which young people are exhibiting mental health disorders - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) disorders, gardening grannies or Tourette’s. - Speech Link
Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support young people in danger of developing an eating disorder.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We know that eating disorders are complicated mental health conditions caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and environmental factors. It is unclear exactly why someone develops an eating disorder. Since 2016, investment in children and young people's community eating disorder services has risen every year, with an extra £54 million per year from 2022/23. This extra funding will enhance the capacity of community eating disorder teams across the country.
The long-term aim set out within the NHS Long-Term Plan is to improve community support for serious mental illnesses, such as eating disorders, to avoid the need for an inpatient admission where possible. Investment in Community Eating Disorder teams for children and young people will support prevention, early identification and intervention, offering swift access to treatment. To accelerate the provision of early intervention eating disorder services for young adults, in 2019/20 NHS England funded 18 sites to implement “First Episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders” model for 16 to 25 year olds. The model is now being adopted more widely.
We are also focussed on delivering commitments made in the Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health green paper to provide early intervention by accelerating the roll out of Mental Health Support Teams. This will support school staff to identify children and young people at risk off or showing signs of mental health difficulties including potential early signs of an eating disorder.
There are currently 287 mental health support teams in place in around 4,700 schools and colleges across the country, offering support to children experiencing anxiety, depression, and other common mental health issue.
TARGET DATE 23/06/2023
Mental health support teams now cover 26% of pupils, a year earlier than originally planned and this will increase to 399 teams, covering around 35% of pupils, by April 2023 with over 500 planned to be up and running by 2024.
Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I know of young people who suffer from eating disorders who were basically told, “Go away and come back - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) survey into children and young people’s mental health, which found that the rates of mental health disorders - Speech Link
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 28 November 2022Found: tissue disorders of limbs congenital Polydactyly 1 0 Syndactyly 1 0 Congenital disorders
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 28 November 2022Found: Ear disorders NEC Ear pain 4 0 Ear swelling 5 0 External ear disorders NEC
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 17 October 2022Found: Ear disorders NEC Ear pain 1 0 Ear swelling 2 0 External ear disorders NEC
Mar. 14 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 18 December 2023Found: Oral cavity disorders congenital NEC Tethered oral tissue 2 0 Congenital disorders SOC TOTAL 10
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking with Ofcom to protect young women and girls from damaging diet and weight-loss adverts on social media.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is responsible for regulating the creative content, media placement and audience targeting of advertising in the UK. The Advertising Codes which it administers contain dedicated rules for adverts relating to weight control or reduction, including prohibiting such adverts from being directed at or containing anything likely to appeal particularly to under-18s or those for whom weight reduction would produce a potentially harmful body weight. The ASA has banned a number of influencer posts promoting prescription-only weight loss injections, and also ran a call for evidence last year on advertising giving rise to potential body image concerns.
The Online Safety Act will require all user-to-user and search services accessed by children to put in place systems and processes designed to prevent children from encountering user-generated content, including advertising, that is harmful to them. Content that promotes, encourages or provides instructions for eating disorders has been designated as a type of ‘priority’ content harmful to children under the Act. The Act also requires providers to put in place age-appropriate protections from any other content, even where this has not been designated as ‘priority’ harmful content, that risks causing significant harm to an appreciable number of children.
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 26 December 2022Found: 2 0 Rate and rhythm disorders NEC Bradycardia 3 0 Cardiac disorders SOC TOTAL 8 1Report Run