The National Health Service Long Term Plan commits to test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas. The exact scope and timelines of these pilots are yet to be finalised, but we envisage that this will include testing waiting times for adult eating disorder services in those areas in receipt of new funding to expand these services.<\/p>
<\/p>
We are committed to ensuring everyone with an eating disorder has access to the best quality of care to meet their needs. We are investing an extra £30 million each year for eating disorders and the NHS is treating more children and young people with an eating disorder than ever before. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to continuing the increase in spending for children and young people\u2019s mental health services, which will grow faster than the overall spend on mental health, which will itself be growing faster than the overall NHS budget.<\/p>
<\/p>
To raise awareness of mental health, including eating disorders, the Department is one of the funders, with Comic Relief and the Big Lottery Funding, of the Time to Change campaign, which is led by Rethink Mental Illness, in partnership with Mind. The campaign\u2019s guidance and advice is available at the following link:<\/p>
<\/p>
https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/about-mental-health/types-problems/eating-disorders<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/856915/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The access and waiting time standard for children and young people with eating disorders states that by 2020/21, evidence-based community eating disorder services for children and young people will be in place in all areas, ensuring that 95% of children in need receive treatment within one week for urgent cases, and four weeks for routine cases.<\/p> <\/p> For children and young people, the latest figures show that the waiting time standard for access to treatment for eating disorders is on track to be met as planned:<\/p> - 76.9% of patients started urgent treatment within one week in Q3 (October - December 2017); and<\/p> - 83.1% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks in Q3 (October \u2013 December 2017).<\/p> <\/p> The Department is investing £30 million a year to 2020 to support clinical commissioning groups in developing and enhancing eating disorder services for children and young people. There are now 70 new or expanded community eating disorders services in place.<\/p> <\/p> This funding is to support the commissioning of services to the standards set out in the NHS England and National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Commissioning Guide, \u2018Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder\u2019, which is available at:<\/p> <\/p> https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/850656/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " NHS England does not hold this information as rejection on the grounds of weight and Body Mass Index is not in line with any of the published guidance such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidance on managing and treating eating disorders and the Eating Disorder Commissioning Guide, and should not occur. NICE\u2019s guidance on eating disorders can be viewed via the following link:<\/p> <\/p> https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng69<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Information on NHS England\u2019s eating disorders programme is available here:<\/p> <\/p> https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/cyp/eating-disorders/<\/a><\/p> <\/p> For children and young people aged between eight and 18 years, the Government is investing £150 million to expand eating disorder services and staff for 70 extended or new established community eating disorder services. This means at least 3,350 children and young people a year will receive swift, effective eating disorder treatment in the community.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/850658/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Government is committed to improving data and transparency on mental health, as was highlighted in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The publicly available Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard reports against eating disorder access and waiting time standards and captures a range of data at a local clinical commissioning groups, Sustainability and Transformation Plans and national level.<\/p> <\/p> https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/<\/a><\/p> <\/p> The Mental Health Services dataset (MHSDS) has included data regarding children and young people\u2019s mental health since January 2016. The data collection is still experimental, with a focus on data quality and completion. Anticipating poor quality data in the early stages of the MHSDS, NHS England implemented an interim data collection via Unify2 that focused on the referral to treatment waiting time element of the Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder evidence based care pathway. This interim measure enabled collection of data and is helping to verify and improve the quality of statistics derived from the MHSDS.<\/p> <\/p> This Unify2 data is available quarterly starting from Quarter 1 in 2016/2017:<\/p> <\/p> https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cyped-waiting-times/<\/a><\/p> <\/p> The latest figures from Q3 (October \u2013 December 17) indicate that:<\/p> <\/p> - 76.9% of children and young people started treatment for an urgent case within one week (236 out of 307 young people who started treatment for an urgent case did so within one week). This is against a target of 95%; and<\/p> <\/p> - 83.1% of young people started treatment for a routine care within four weeks (1,238 out of 1,489 young people who started treatment for a routine case did so within four weeks). This is also against a target of 95%<\/p>"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/845713", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
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