Boosting Knowledge and Skills to Support Patients with Eating Disorders

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All health professionals, wherever they serve, will come across people with eating disorders in their day-to-day clinical work. These are complex illnesses, with high levels of morbidity and mortality. They create significant emotional distress, affect relationships and the ability to function in society. They have an impact upon the person’s education and employment - and in many cases, they can be a real threat to life.

It is now over five years since the UK's Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman published the report 'Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients' (PHSO, 2017). Having carefully investigated the tragic death of Averil Hart, as a result of anorexia nervosa, and having identified multiple times when her life could have been saved, the PHSO report called for more training on eating disorders for health professionals.

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