Petition Reopen the Richardson Eating Disorder Service outpatients department (Newcastle)

The North East of England has the highest proportion of eating disorders, yet it has little to no support for treatment. Recently the NHS pulled funding on the REDS outpatient department for eating disorders in Newcastle so vulnerable adults now cannot receive community support.

More details

Due to NHS cut backs, the REDS team have lost all of their outpatient care and now only operate a day service for patients. The unit can only hold around 30 patients and once discharged they receive no outpatient community care. The BMI criteria has also been lowered so now unless patients have a bmi of <16 cannot be seen by professionals. Patients cannot be left without outpatient support as the risk of relapse is high. The funding must be raised so the outpatients department can be reopened.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

1,435 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 1,435 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 19 July 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.