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<p>The number of children and young people who started treatment for an eating disorder
in each clinical commissioning group area and National Health Service provider is
collected by NHS England on a quarterly basis since April 2016. This data is provided
in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that
everyone with an eating disorder has access to timely treatment and have established
a waiting time standard to improve access to eating disorders services for children
and young people so that, by 2020/21, 95% of children with an eating disorder will
receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and within four weeks for routine
cases.</p><p> </p><p>Latest available waiting times figures for children and young
people with an eating disorder indicate that NHS England is on track to meet that
standard by 2020/21 with Quarter 1 (April to June 2018) data showing 74.7% of all
patients starting urgent treatment within one week and 81.2%% of patients starting
routine treatment within four weeks.</p>
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