Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 115768

Eating Disorders: Community Health Services

Tabled: 24 February 2026

Answered: 3 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Andrew Cooper

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.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed

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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