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To: Vitality and private healthcare lobbyists, the current government

Make ARFID treatment as accessible as treatments for Anorexia and Bulimia

To introduce networks and resources across the UK, in eating disorder facilities under the NHS, to have understanding and suitable treatment for ARFID or Selective Eating Disorder (SED) in all mental health facilities the same as other eating disorders.

Why is this important?

Malnutrition causes the NHS £1 billion per annum each year as prior to 2014, this disorder was not recognised by the DSM-5. This meant sufferers have learned to live on diets unsuitable for long term and as a result are nutritionally deficient which can cause an alarming amount of problems such as diabetes, lowered cognitive function, necrosis, and even death considering eating disorders have abundant fatalities each year, as every sixty two minutes, a person dies from an eating disorder.

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2019-12-01 18:17:44 +0000

100 signatures reached

2019-11-29 20:11:12 +0000

50 signatures reached

2019-11-29 09:49:08 +0000

25 signatures reached

2019-11-28 11:42:14 +0000

10 signatures reached