NHS England data shows 84 patients were sent hospitals in Scotland in 2020-23 due to lack of beds near their homesVulnerable eating disorder patients from England are being sent hundreds of miles from their homes to Scotland for treatment, as the numbe...
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Exclusive: inadequately qualified coaches charging thousands claiming to offer support to people with eating disordersVulnerable mental health patients are being put at risk by unregulated “eating disorder coaches” who do not have the necessary qualifi...
Exclusive: union says severely ill patients being discharged as they are not getting better quickly enoughSeverely unwell eating disorder patients who are not responding to treatment are being discharged owing to a rationing of care, the Royal College ...
‘It’s unjustifiable,’ says Anne Dobrée, who spends hundreds of pounds to see Sophie in hospitalPatients with eating disorders sent from England to Scotland due to lack of bedsWhen Anne Dobrée’s daughter Sophie relapsed while recovering from an eating d...
NHS spent £10m relocating women and girls from hospitals in England since 2017, putting recovery at risk, say expertsThe mother whose daughter was sent 200 miles away for eating disorder treatmentA shortage of beds for severely unwell eating-disorder p...
UK eating disorder charity Beat says problem, fuelled by social media, increasing even among those who are not underweightAn increasing number of women are losing their monthly periods because they are following a social media trend for restrictive die...
Former Labour deputy leader says problems worsened in lockdown as he replaced sugar addiction with dairyLabour’s former deputy leader Tom Watson has revealed he has an eating disorder, saying his relationship with food is very complicated and that he h...
Technology and Covid lockdowns blamed for rise in eating disorders and insomnia among youngIt was while browsing on social media at the age of 13 that Hannah realised she had an eating disorder. Seeing other girls and women talking about their experien...
Families being forced to quit jobs and live off credit cards in order to support loved ones, report revealsOne in five patients with potentially life-threatening eating disorders are forced to pay for private care as part of their treatment, with famil...
Psychiatrists say rising demand is overwhelming services amid rigours of pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA record number of children and young people with a potentially life-threatening eating disorder are waiting fo...