Eating disorder services should be multidisciplinary and include care in the community as well as intensive day patient or inpatient treatment for people with a high level of risk. There are two main services supporting people with eating disorders in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough:.
The Exemplar approved by the Clinical Commissioning Group in aimed to produce a seamless system delivering accessible evidence-based eating disorder services, removing referrals and thresholds, ensuring early intervention, integrated working and robust physical heath monitoring.
This is delivered via three pathways link powerpoint ;. The number of open referrals and caseload of adult eating disorder services have substantially increased since April Image source: Workbook: Eating Disorders Services england.
Note: Caseload is a measure of referrals that have had at least one attended contact and are still open at the end of the month. During the period August to July , the majority of new referrals to eating disorder services were from general practice. Figure Proportion of referrals to eating disorder services age 18 to 64 with two or more contacts recorded within the past 4 weeks, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS, August β July Since September there has been a substantial increase is seen in the number of telephone and video consultations, alongside a large decrease in the number of face-to-face consultations.
All eating disorder services saw an increase in referral rates since the start of the COVID pandemic, but the largest increase was in adult community eating disorder services. Figure New referrals all ages to community eating disorder services.
