There's No Place Like Home: A Symposium Programme

09:15-10:00

Registration

Tea and coffee will be provided during this time

10:00 – 10:30

Introduction

This session will hear from people with lived experience and provide an overview of:

• The report and progress we have made since its launch
• Our work on a toolkit to support the development of intensive community and day services
• Key barriers and facilitators you’ve been telling us about

10:30 – 12:10

Setting the Scene

This session will cover barriers and opportunities within the national policy context:

• In England: Neighborhood Health, delegation to ICBs, and the future dissolution of NHSE
• In Scotland: the work of the National Eating Disorders Network and the implementation of the National Specification for Eating Disorders
• In Wales: the role of a national feasibility study that includes intensive day services

We will also provide an overview of the evidence base and end with a panel discussion with opportunity for questions.

Speakers:

• Dr Fiona Duffy
• Dr Erica Cini

Further speakers and details to be confirmed

12:10 – 13:00

Lunch

This will include an opportunity to speak to clinicians working in different intensive community and day services through stalls providing information and resources.

13:00 – 14:55

Showcasing Different Models

This session will cover presentations from different services and their structures, focusing on different barriers they have experienced and how they have addressed them. It will also include lived experiences. Topics include commissioning, navigating finding the right clinical space, supporting each other as a team, staffing, NG feeding, accessibility for underserved groups, and embedding the service as part of the treatment pathway.

We will end on a panel discussion, with opportunity for questions.

Speakers:

• Amy Crossley-Lewis, Eating Disorder Outreach Service, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Wales
• Dr Fiona Duffy, NHS Lothian CAMHS Eating Disorder Team, Scotland
• Dr Victoria Chapman, Royal Free CAMHS Eating Disorder Service, London, England

Further speakers and details to be confirmed

14:55 – 15:10

Break

15:10 – 16:20

What next?

We have been developing a toolkit to support the development of intensive community and day services. We will present progress on the toolkit so far and its structure, leading to group discussions focusing on:

• What is missing from the toolkit?
• If you have experience of leading or working in such a service, what advice do you have for others, and if you don’t, what do you need to develop one?
• What will you take away from this event?
• How can Beat support you in the implementation of our recommendations and the development of these services?

There will also be an opportunity for questions in this session.

16:20 – 16:30

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