Entries by Sarah Marsh

Record number of young people wait for eating disorder treatment in England

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...

‘Young people need help’: parents call for change in eating disorder care

Eight and a half years since Averil Hart died, her father asks when well-meaning policies will be turned into actionUK needs national register for eating disorder deaths, MPs sayIt is more than eight years since Averil Hart died after being found passe...

‘Young people need help’: parents call for change in eating disorder care

Eight and a half years since Averil Hart died, her father asks when well-meaning policies will be turned into actionUK needs national register for eating disorder deaths, MPs sayIt is more than eight years since Averil Hart died after being found passe...

UK needs national register for eating disorder deaths, MPs say

Call for better data collection on anorexia and bulimia comes as experts warn of underreported crisis‘Young people need help’: parents call for change in eating disorder careEating disorder deaths need to be recorded on a national register, MPs are urg...

UK needs national register for eating disorder deaths, MPs say

Call for better data collection on anorexia and bulimia comes as experts warn of underreported crisis‘Young people need help’: parents call for change in eating disorder careEating disorder deaths need to be recorded on a national register, MPs are urg...

Daughter of Trevor Phillips dies after 22-year anorexia struggle

Sister writes that Sushila, 36, a freelance journalist, was ‘a best friend and an inspiration’A daughter of the anti-racism campaigner Trevor Phillips has died after living with anorexia for more than two decades.Sushila Phillips, 36, who worked as a f...

Daughter of Trevor Phillips dies after 22-year anorexia struggle

Sister writes that Sushila, 36, a freelance journalist, was ‘a best friend and an inspiration’A daughter of the anti-racism campaigner Trevor Phillips has died after living with anorexia for more than two decades.Sushila Phillips, 36, who worked as a f...

Eating disorders: families tube-feeding patients at home amid NHS bed shortage

Exclusive: urgent investment needed as demand grows for treatment for conditions such as anorexia in pandemic Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageExtremely unwell eating disorder patients are having to be tube fed at home by the...

Eating disorders: families tube-feeding patients at home amid NHS bed shortage

Exclusive: urgent investment needed as demand grows for treatment for conditions such as anorexia in pandemic Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageExtremely unwell eating disorder patients are having to be tube fed at home by the...

Scrap use of BMI in decisions on eating disorder support – MPs

Women and equalities committee also calls for restriction or ban on edited images in advertisingThe government’s approach to tackling lockdown-exacerbated eating disorders and negative body image is dangerous, MPs have said, as they called for action o...