The eating disorder service (EDS) offers specialist assessment and outpatient treatment to people aged eight and above (adults, adolescents and children). The service works with individuals and their families to support them in their recovery. Services provided by EDS include:

• psychological treatments delivered either on an individual basis, to families or in groups;
• dietetic input and nutritional support;
• medical and nursing assessment and intervention

Criteria:

• aged eight and over with no upper age limit
• registered with a GP in Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, or Waltham Forest
• people who are not registered with a GP but are ordinarily resident in the four localities above
• people meeting the criteria for the spectrum of eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED)

Test results required at referral:

• current weight and height (mandatory)
• recent weight loss (mandatory)
• blood test – FBC, U&E, glucose sodium & potassium, TFT, LFT, calcium and phosphate (desired)

We have now moved. Please see below for our new address.

Contact our services in Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest

The Orchards Health Centre,
Gascoigne Road
Barking, Essex,
IG11 7RS

Tel:  0300 555 1216
Fax: 0844 931 0137

Email: nem-tr.eatingdisorder@nhs.net
Opening times: 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday

For our Community Eating Disorder service for Children and Young People (CEDS-CYP) appointments can also be booked at:

30 Coleridge Road,
Walthamstow,
London
E17 6QU

Referrals

Referrals will be accepted through GPs, community mental health teams, home treatment teams (HTT) and the A&E liasion service.

EDS Kent and Medway

If you require our Eating Disorder service in Kent and Medway, please click on the link below:

http://www.nelft.nhs.uk/services-kent-medway-eating-disorders