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Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) GP referral for assessment, (b) assessment and (c) treatment for patients with eating disorders.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) GP referral for assessment, (b) assessment and (c) treatment for patients with eating disorders.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
General practice (GP) is the front door to the National Health Service, and we know that patients are struggling to see a GP. We are committed to fixing this and delivering the care that patients deserve. That is why, in October 2024, we provided an £82 m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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