Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

Increase funding for child and adult eating disorder services

Closed 464 signatures

What the petition asks

It is important that eating disorder services have more funding in order to help prevent patients being referred to palliative care. These services can help people with eating disorder recover, and we are concerned that they are not sufficiently well funded.
Eating disorders are extremely serious mental health conditions and anorexia nervosa has a higher mortality rate than any other mental illness. We are concerned that some eating disorder patients have been offered palliative care. While some patients are less responsive to treatment than others, that does not mean they cannot recover now or in the future.

Timeline

13 Sep 2023 Petition opened for signatures
13 Mar 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 464
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 13 Sep 2023
Closed 13 Mar 2024

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.