Project Management of the Eating Disorders Training Programme

Education commissioning, delivery and monitoring are normally executed through a network of local offices. The HEE Mental Health and Learning Disability Team in London will be responsible for commissioning and monitoring the Eating Disorder Programme.

The Autumn Statement 2014 announced funds of £30 million per year to improve community based Eating Disorder (ED) services so patients are helped earlier to improve recovery, reduce relapse, and need for in-patient care. The funding is intended to improve the consistency and quality of eating disorders services, provide new and enhanced community and day treatment care, ensure staff are adequately trained and supervised in evidence-based treatment and effective service delivery, and ensure the best use of inpatient services. In March 2015, the coalition Government published Future in Mind, which set out the vision for protecting, promoting and improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing across the system. This was supported by a further Budget announcement of £1.25 billion investment over the next five years to transform delivery of children and young people’s mental health care. These aims are aligned to the recommendations set out in the Five Year Forward View and allow NHSE and HEE to move forward at scale and with pace.

In August 2015, the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and NHS England published the Access and Waiting Time Standard and Commissioning Guidance for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder, with the release of first year’s additional funding of £30 million to develop or enhance community eating disorder services.

An integral part of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Programme in NHS England is to build capacity and capability and improve delivery of mental health care. As part of the programme, NHSE are building on CYP IAPT systemic family practice for eating disorders curriculum to develop further curricula and a whole team training specification to improve access to evidence based interventions for children and young people with an eating disorder.

For this purpose, NHS England is collaborating with HEE to set up an evidence based eating disorder team specification and curricula group to develop:

The eating disorder whole-team training specification and curriculum will be implemented by educational providers for training practitioners to deliver NICE-compliant evidence based eating disorder interventions.