To think the NHS should not be cutting funding for Anorexia and EDs if they are going to be spending ££££ on weight loss jabs

But you’ve singled out one group of society who should in your opinion not receive NHS help, but who should go private.

Of course it is shocking and horrible that ANY service is cut. We all wish that was not the case.

But you have decided that obese people are the ones you are going to pick on?

So funding should be proportional?

3% to women with anorexia
30% to obese women.

Or 0.2% to anorexic children
19% to obese children

All of these cuts seem cruel and as if they want to get rid of certain groups of people it’s disgusting

What needs to be shared around?
The budget is already shared. There is a local budget and each commissioner is making decisions based on the needs in their local area. The hospital gets a budget and clinical leads are submitting proposals which include cost-benefit analysis. Then each department gets their own pot of funding accordingly.
If there was a jab to fix anorexia, I am fairly certain you would gladly accept it and not question that funding is being pulled from skin cancer surgeries. In the actual fact, these two services are entirely unrelated much like obesity and ED services. Even if the obesity jab cost 1k a week, it still wouldn't cover a week of a specialist ED bed. And it costs much much less.

Why don't you pay for private treatment for your daughter?

MH services budgets have been cut drastically in many areas it’s stretched beyond what can be managed by funding and lack of staffing too the issue is the the NHS is broken and much of the money is wasted and poorly managed this don’t new it’s just absolutely critical now

The money for WLI is not being taken out of MH services that is not how the funding works (it’s £112 a month not a week)

of course this feels personal for you but they are separate issues and there are far more concerning issues with NHS funding and how money is spent than a relatively low cost medication

Mental health provision has been inadequate for pretty much all conditions for years, with long waiting lists and patchy services. But that’s a completely separate issue to the very limited introduction of weight loss medication for around 200,000 people over 3 years, all of whom have to have a bmi of over 35 and at least one weight related health condition. By the way the medication costs the NHS £122 a month not a week & that’s for the highest dose. Obesity can be a serious health threat and is a chronic disease that is extremely hard to reverse once it is established. It’s not a mental illness.

Private prescription costs are different to what the drug companies charge the NHS.

Weight loss injections are no more a quick fix than getting a woman with AN to eat a sandwich is.

£122pwk wouldn't even cover the cost of someone with anorexia seeing a therapist on the NHS. It's like taking money away from cervical smear screening to spend it on treatment for people only diagnosed with cervical cancer.

The problem.with anorexia is it's incredibly difficult to get rid of fully. Most people have to learn to repress it every single day. But it's not like booze or drugs where you can physically avoid them fully if you have the willpower. You have to face you fear three or more times a day.

The NHS will basically section you and feed you up until you're out of the danger zone, but many people actually don't want to or cannot fully stop that habit so they keep relapsing. And the treatment is scary and only deals with the surface problem which is very low weight.

Osteoporosis is a big problem amongst ED sufferers. Meaning lots of broken bones throughout their lives.

I agree with you op and I have said similar to you on here before about anorexia being more deadly than obesity. It will fall on some pretty deaf ears though as a lot of people are absolutely fixated on being thin at all costs.

I am so sorry about your dd struggling with it. It is an awful, awful illness.

My sibling is a psychiatric doctor who specialises in eating disorders and I haven't heard anything about cuts yet, but I don't disbelieve you

I'm confused where you get the impression that specialist ED services are being cut? It's still a priority area in the NHS Long Term Plan.

64% of adults in the UK are overweight or obese. It makes sense for the majority to have more funding.

Look, I get that you're totally out of your mind with anxiety. Anorexia is an evil illness.

But begrudging other people treatment on the NHS is not the solution. You want people to be forced to pay towards weight loss drugs? So are you also arguing that families should pay towards anorexia support as well? You want fairness, so presumably you'd be willing to put your own hand in your pocket as well?

The NHS is funding weight loss drugs because there is a high return on investment. Ultimately, they save money in the long run. That doesn't mean that they're taking money away from anorexia treatments. It means that they're freeing up more resource in the NHS to spend where it's needed.

By all means, campaign for better ED care. I support you. But don't confuse it with this issue.

That's the cost to the NHS, not the cost of private medication. So this will include GP consultation and whatever other ho-ha they have to do before prescribing (?bloods).

The Weight Loss Injections you talk of are very difficult to get on NHS. They are DIABETIC medication in the first place.

They are also cheaper and less dangerousv to the NHS than bariatric surgery, which is often offered first.

Do you think diabetes shouldn't be treated? Causing limb loss and blindness in favour of eating disorders.

Weight loss jabs seem to be a quick answer. So I think they should be funded. I don't know enough about anorexia but it seems there are no answers or effective treatment.