Eating disorders: families tube-feeding patients at home amid NHS bed shortage – The Guardian

Eating disordersExclusive: urgent investment needed as demand grows for treatment for conditions such as anorexia in pandemic
Extremely unwell eating disorder patients are having to be tube fed at home by their families owing to a lack of hospital beds, as the Royal College of Psychiatrists reports a rise in people being treated in units without specialist support.
Leading psychiatrists are urging the government for an emergency cash investment as the pandemic has prompted a rise in demand for…

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