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<p>The Government is committed to ensuring everyone with an eating disorder has access
to timely treatment based on clinical need. We set up the first waiting times 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 and latest figures indicate that
the National Health Service is on track to meet that standard.</p><p>For adults, the
NHS Long Term Plan commits to “test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult
community mental health teams, with selected local areas”. Last autumn, we announced
that 12 areas in England would receive over £70 million of transformation funding
in 2019/20 and 2020/21 to test new integrated models of primary and community mental
health care for adults. Eight of these sites plan to implement innovative service
models that will improve access and quality for adults and older adults with eating
disorders in line with new national guidance on adult eating disorder care</p><p>
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