The Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Service at RFL provides specialist outpatient care for young people with disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, atypical variations, binge eating, and complex ARFID. It emphasises community-based recovery through evidence-based family and individual therapies, with an intensive service available for more severe cases. 

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

• children (over 8 years) and young people under the age of 18 (if aged 17 and nine months, refer to the adult service at St Ann's)
• registered with an NCL GP
• has anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or atypical variations of these disorders (this includes meeting the criteria for anorexia nervosa except that despite significant weight loss, the individual's weight is within or above the normal range)
• binge eating disorder: we accept referrals for binge eating (defined as eating a large amount of food in a short amount of time with a sense of loss of control and associated guilt and shame occurring at least once per week for 3 months) in the absence of compensatory behaviours
• complex or severe Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) - see decision making aid here) (see criteria)

Exclusions

• aged 18+
• for mild to moderate Eating Difficulties and ARFID please refer to the Tavistock team here (and use decision making aid)
• we do not accept referrals for emotional eating (young people who are overeating but not bingeing) or infrequent bingeing (less than once per week), please refer to the Tavistock team here
• we do not accept referrals for weight management.

How to Refer