A LAKES MP has urged health bosses to keep promise of eating disorder service for young people in South Cumbria.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to the Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group to ask them to keep their promise of a specialist one-to-one eating disorder service for young people in South Cumbria.
Back in February 2016, the Government allocated £5m to be used to create a bespoke county-wide service, but over three years later there are still no signs of this happening.
Figures from the charity BEAT show that over three quarters of children with eating disorders in Cumbria are not seen by a psychologist within the national standard of four weeks, with some having to wait 12 weeks.
Mr Farron said: "There is a desperate need out there for a specialist service but sadly those parents continue to be let down by the decision makers."
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