FREED receives NHS support to reach hundreds of young people

The investment is part of the NHS Long Term Plan – a future focused plan that ambitiously sets out key commitments for the NHS over the next 10 years. Prevention and addressing issues early before the need for more intensive treatment are among the headline commitments of the plan alongside developing new models of care, reducing inequalities, and improving mental health care.

Greater investment in eating disorder disorders has always be needed, however, now more than ever this is at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Recent calls for urgent changes to eating disorder services following an inquest into the death of five women, many of whom were between 16-25 years old (https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4346), and growing concern about the impact of the pandemic on eating, exercise, and young people (e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eat.23317) have shone a spotlight on eating issues and disorders.

For more information please check out the NHS-E website for the official press release: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2020/11/hundreds-of-young-people-with-eating-disorders-to-benefit-from-gold-standard-nhs-treatment/