Moving our mental health services online

Aim

In order to keep Eating Disorder sufferers safe and out of NHS beds we have moved our services online, and created new ways we can support.

SUPPORTING THE NHS

Over the New Year the NHS published that hospital admissions for eating disorder patients had increased by 37% in the last two years and was rising, in normal day to day running our own enquiries had gone up 67% in the same period.  Our role is, and has always been, to support clients either side of the NHS provision, and we know that it is more important now than ever to stop patients moving into NHS beds if we can “hold” them in a counselling and support service. 

SUPPORTING CLIENTS

We know that isolation with a family or self-isolation can have a massively detrimental effect on any person with a mental health condition, those with eating disorders will find the continual obsession with food unbearable.

SUPPORTING VOLUNTEERS

We have moved our counselling services on line successfully but now need to add more paid resources to our supervision team to enable us to open an online chat services, an online support group and a discussion forum.  These can be run by qualified volunteers but we need adequate professional supervision to keep volunteers and clients safe and supported.

This project successfully funded on 22nd July 2020