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Eating Disorders: Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) completeness and (b) quality of data collected on waiting times to access adult community eating disorder services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
2 Mar 2026
Answer
3 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 24 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) completeness and (b) quality of data collected on waiting times to access adult community eating disorder services.

  2. 2 Mar 2026

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  3. 3 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Adult eating disorders are covered by the overall adult waiting time metrics developed through the Clinically Led Review of Standards. Work to implement adult community mental health time-based metrics therefore also applies to adult community eating diso...

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