Eating disorders training for health and care staff

Summary

This series of training programmes was collaboratively developed by eating disorder charity Beat, Health Education England and NHSE. It was developed in response to the 2017 PHSO investigation into avoidable deaths from eating disorders, as outlined in recommendations from the report Ignoring the Alarms: How NHS Eating Disorder Services Are Failing Patients.

It is designed to ensure that healthcare staff are trained to understand, identify and respond appropriately when faced with a patient with a possible eating disorder. It includes sessions relevant for different healthcare professionals and includes:

• Medical students and foundation doctors programme
• Nursing workforce sessions
• GP and Primary care workforce sessions
• Medical Monitoring in eating disorders
• Understanding Eating Disorders Webinar resource for dietitians, oral health teams and community pharmacy teams