National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED)

Programme overview

Eating disorders are serious, potentially life-threatening conditions that affect a person’s emotional and physical health.  Eating disorders severely affect the quality of life of the sufferer and those that care for them. Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder, from medical complications associated with the illness as well as suicide.

Bulimia nervosa is associated with severe medical complications, and both bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder conditions often are associated with obesity and the related metabolic complications. Evidence highlights the importance of early intervention as soon an eating disorder is suspected, to prevent development of entrenched, long-term illness.

The National Audit of Eating Disorders seeks to drive improvement of the identification and appropriate management of eating disorders and the quality and consistency of services for children and young people (CYP), adults of working age and older adults.

Additional information on all HQIP-commissioned projects is available on the NHS Trusts page, which includes the recommendations repository, infographics compendium, 9-month publication schedule, impact report, and National Clinical Audit and Enquiries Directory. For further information about this project, please contact the project team directly using the contact details listed in the ‘Supplier Info’ section above.

Accessing data

Data collected on behalf of HQIP by all NCAPOP projects is routinely reported and these reports are available in the ‘Related resources’ section. The reported data is also placed on the data.gov.uk website.

For regularly updated dynamic reporting of audit data, follow the link in the HQIP Directory in the column called ‘Link to dynamic reporting’.

For details of how to apply for data that is not in the public domain, please see HQIP’s data access webpages.

Details of the contracts that HQIP awards are available at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.