# Children’s eating-disorder treatment waits

> Urgent cases starting within one week and routine cases within four weeks in the NHS London region.

- Category: NHS
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `nhs-eating-disorder-waits`
- Source: [NHS England](https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-services-monthly-statistics)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-eating-disorder-waits](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-eating-disorder-waits)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-eating-disorder-waits](https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-eating-disorder-waits)

## Methodology

Published MHSDS children and young people eating-disorder access measures for the NHS London commissioning region. Only periods in which both urgent and routine measures are present are drawn; the current national bundle contains two comparable London-region periods, May 2025 and April 2026, rather than a continuous monthly series. The figures are provisional and methodology changes in 2026/27 must be treated as a break rather than a seamless trend.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-eating-disorder-waits): Urgent cases starting within one week and routine cases within four weeks in the NHS London region.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-eating-disorder-waits?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.
- [First to latest](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-eating-disorder-waits?view=first-last): Compare each series' first and latest published values.

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