Category: Eating Disorders

Mental health trusts work in partnership to support people affected by eating disorders

NHS England, August 2019

This case study show how CONNECT, a regional service in Yorkshire aimed at improving care for adults with eating disorders, worked in partnerships to better support people with mental health issues.  The CONNECT Service offers a variety of treatment options based on a person’s needs including early intervention, home-based treatment or inpatient treatment.

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Best practice in the engagement and empowerment of families and carers affected by eating disorders

Beat Eating Disorders, July 2019

Guidelines that call for all healthcare providers to adopt eight best practice standards, encouraging them to:

  • 1. Have a policy that ensures optimum involvement of and support for all carers as soon as a loved one starts treatment.
  • 2. Train all service staff in the application of the policy and these standards with particular focus on the importance of carers as a resource for recovery.
  • 3. Provide all carers with useful and comprehensive information about eating disorders when their loved one receives a diagnosis.
  • 4. Offer all carers and siblings an assessment of their own needs when a loved one receives an eating disorder diagnosis, continue to monitor their wellbeing throughout the sufferer’s treatment and, where necessary, refer carers to specialist services.
  • 5. Offer all carers options for peer-to-peer support.
  • 6. Offer all carers opportunities to learn the necessary skills to provide optimum support for their loved ones.
  • 7. Inform and engage carers when a loved one faces a transition between services and ensure that effective communication between both services and carers takes place.
  • 8. Provide a mechanism by which carers’ input and feedback is sought and acted upon.

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