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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sarah Marsh

Patients with eating disorders sent from England to Scotland due to lack of beds

Patients were all female and a number of the under 18.
Patients were all female and a number of them were under 18. Photograph: Bsip Sa/Alamy

A shortage of beds for severely unwell eating-disorder patients has forced the NHS to send more than 100 women from England to hospitals in Scotland for treatment since 2017.

The cost of relocating patients, which included under-18s, was more than £10m, with one patient staying more than a year in hospital, costing close to £250,000.

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