Adults in England with eating disorders wait up to 700 days for treatment, report finds

The eating disorder charity Beat said the growing disparity between child and adult services was ‘particularly worrying’. Photograph: Giorgio Rossi/Alamy

Adults with eating disorders in England are waiting up to 700 days for vital treatment, according to a report.

The stark figures were revealed in the first report of the National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED), which looked at access to eating disorder services across the country.