Wait for eating disorder treatment averages five months, with an 18-month backlog at one trust

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Wait for eating disorder treatment averages five months, with an 18-month backlog at one trust
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Without better care, a whole generation of young adults and adults could be negatively affected, experts warn.

She told Sky News that this had a"detrimental impact" on every aspect of her life - from education, to relationships with friends and family.She added:"When accessing treatment for anorexia there has not been a time when I've not experienced a significant delay."Jayya celebrating her 30th birthdayMs Malhorta is currently waiting for community-based care, a wait that has reached 12 months so far.

When patients get help earlier,"they get better faster", he said, adding that, without better care, a"whole generation of young adults and adults" could be negatively affected. "Their chance of death changes increases massively as well because eating disorder is a multi-systemic disorder, meaning that it affects a patient's heart, the brain, the kidneys, the lungs and bones, their fertility."According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, more funding is desperately needed for eating disorder services in the NHS.

"If this government is serious about reducing costs they need to put forward an invest-to-save model which actually invests in community care, which means that people get care in more of a timely manner and don't become more acute and put extra pressure on an NHS which is already struggling."

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