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<p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman
(PSHO) report: “Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing
patients”. NHS England and NHS Improvement are committed to meet the PSHO’s recommendations.</p><p>
</p><p>Commencing in March 2018, the National Clinical Director for Mental Health,
Professor Tim Kendall was asked by the NHS England Board to establish a working group
with other arm’s length bodies named in the PHSO report to help oversee and co-ordinate
actions being taken to implement the recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>The national review
of adult eating disorder services that NHS England commissioned in 2017 is now complete.
Data collected on activity, investment and workforce is being reviewed with stakeholders
to inform NHS England’s understanding of current provision and existing levels of
parity with eating disorder services for children and young people. The data will
inform modelling to understand the finance and workforce gaps to achieving greater
levels of parity.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will work with the Royal College of Psychiatrists’
Quality Improvement and Accreditation Networks, specifically the Quality Eating Disorder
Network, to help embed recommendations in service standards used to review the quality
of care delivered in eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement has completed
an engagement programme to inform a review of the Serious Incident Framework for the
National Health Service. Further information about the engagement programme is available
on NHS Improvement’s website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/future-of-patient-safety-investigation/"
target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/future-of-patient-safety-investigation/</a></p><p>
</p><p>NHS England is working closely with NHS Improvement to analyse responses from
the engagement programme and will give particular consideration to how the different
parts of the system can be brought together to improve the way incidents that are
complex and/or involve multiple providers are investigated.</p>
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