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Winston, Anthony P., Child, Samantha, Jackson, Joseph and Paul, Moli (2022) Management of transitions to adult services for young people with eating disorders : survey of current practice in England. BJPsych Bulletin . pp. 1-6. doi:10.1192/bjb.2021.109 ISSN 2056-4694.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2021.109
Abstract
Aims and method
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has published recommendations for managing transitions between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult services for eating disorders. A self-report questionnaire was designed to establish how many CAMHS teams meet these recommendations and was distributed to 70 teams providing eating disorders treatment in England.
Results
Of the 38 services that participated, 31 (81.6%) reported a flexible upper age limit for treatment. Only 6 services (15.8%) always transferred young people to a specialist adult eating disorders service and the majority transferred patients to either a specialist service or a community mental health team. Most services complied with recommended provision such as a written transition protocol (52.6%), individualised transition plans (78.9%), joint care with adult services (89.5%) and transition support for the family (73.7%).
Clinical implications
Services are largely compliant with the recommendations. It is a concern that only a small proportion of services are always able to refer to a specialist adult service and this is likely to be due to a relative lack of investment in adult services.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Eating disorders -- Patients -- England, Health services -- England, Child health services -- England | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | BJPsych Bulletin | ||||||
| Publisher: | Royal College of Psychiatrists | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2056-4694 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 7 January 2022 | ||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 1-6 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1192/bjb.2021.109 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | ** From PubMed via Jisc Publications Router | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 March 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 March 2022 |
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