NHS Confederation - 28th February 2023
Key points
- Members of our Mental Health Network – leaders of mental health services – are concerned that thousands of children and young people risk missing out on the help they need for their eating disorder unless the government commits to ongoing specialist funding.
- They are treating double the numbers of children with eating disorders who need urgent care now than before the pandemic, and we now face a cost-of-living crisis which is causing and exacerbating mental health issues.
- The NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network is calling for £12 million of additional funding over the next year to ensure children and young people who need treatment from specialist eating disorder services can access it.
- This needs to run alongside a further commitment to roll out mental health support teams in schools and colleges nationwide to provide preventative support and opportunities for early intervention. Government should increase its target of 15-25 per cent access by 2022-23 to 100 per cent blanket coverage and ensure that mental health support teams
are rolled out rapidly. - Government must provide mental health services with long-term and sustained investment to help meet demand which could mean an extra £900 million per year by 2024-25, so they can fulfil their ambitions of levelling up mental health
Further information - Eating Disorders Awareness Week
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