Eating · United Kingdom
BBC: MPs urge UK to treat eating disorders as an emergency
A parliamentary report concludes that woefully inadequate eating-disorder care is costing lives.
The BBC reports on a parliamentary inquiry concluding that the UK's eating-disorder care system is dangerously inadequate, with patients discharged in life-threatening states and long waits for specialist care.
MPs call for emergency-level treatment of the system, including ringfenced funding and workforce expansion.
Read the full BBC report for the parliamentary findings and patient testimony.
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