Increase funding for research into eating disorders
- 115 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 171 - 4 added in the past 24hrs)
I want the government put more funding into research for eating disorders. Some disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness and can create irreversible damage to the body including the vital organs.
Found: Between 2009 and 2019 total UK funding for eating disorder research amounted to just £1.13 per person
Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Across the UK, 1.25 million people have eating disorders, which include binge eating disorder, bulimia - Speech Link
2: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) Without diagnosis and treatment, eating disorders can be deadly. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Disorders Awareness Week and taking the opportunity to raise awareness of eating disorders in general - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) Disorders, a UK-wide charity working to support those living with eating disorders, and their families - Speech Link
2: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) disorders, and which has provided us with information and has led on eating disorders awareness week - Speech Link
3: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) As we have heard, eating disorders are not uncommon. - Speech Link
4: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) disorders network, as well as the publication of a national specification for eating disorders care - Speech Link
Found: Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2024
Oct. 27 2023
Source Page: Care and treatment of eating disorders - national specification: consultationFound: Care and treatment of eating disorders - national specification: consultation
Asked by: Gen Kitchen (Labour - Wellingborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support she is providing for young people with eating disorders in Wellingborough constituency.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Since 2016, investment in children and young people's community eating disorder services has risen every year, with an extra £54 million per year as of 2023/24. This extra funding continues to enhance the capacity of community eating disorder teams across the country.
NHS England continues to work with system leaders and regions, including Wellingborough, and asks that areas prioritise service delivery and investment to meet the needs of these vulnerable young people, to help ensure funding flows to these services as intended. To support this, NHS England is refreshing guidance on children and young people's eating disorders, including increasing the focus on early identification and intervention.
Oct. 27 2023
Source Page: Care and treatment of eating disorders - national specification: consultationFound: Care and treatment of eating disorders - national specification: consultation
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS trusts use a body mass index threshold for treatment for eating disorders in (a) adults and (b) children and adolescents.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department does not hold this data centrally. NHS England continues to emphasise to systems and services that body mass index should not be used as a single measure to determine access to treatment within eating disorder services. This is in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommendations and is included in national published guidance.
Closed Consultation: National specification for the care and treatment of eating disorders in Scotland
Opened: Friday 27th October 2023Found: National specification for the care and treatment of eating disorders in Scotland
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, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing additional funding to the devolved Administrations to help support young people with (a) bulimia, (b) anorexia and (c) other eating disorders.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
There are currently no plans for such an assessment. As health is a predominantly devolved matter, and funding through the Barnett formula is not ringfenced for specific uses, it is for the devolved administrations to determine how much of their funding they allocate to specific healthcare services, including eating disorder services, in their nations.