Written questions

Eating Disorders: Community Health Services

Commons · Question 115768 · Tabled 24 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 3 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by 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

Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 3 Mar 2026

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...