Eating Disorders Service
Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
Sam is a Mental Health Nurse and developed and led the Gloucestershire open access, all age community eating disorders service from 1996-2024. He developed a home treatment service for young people and a day treatment programme for people aged 16+. The service also pioneered implementation of the Body Project primary prevention intervention. Sam was actively involved in setting up the British Eating Disorders Society (BrEDS) and was Chair of the Trustees from 2018 to 2025. He is Convenor and Co-Chair of the Adolescent and Adult Eating Disorders Research Consortiums and was a member of the Beat Clinical Advisory Group for several years.