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Mealtime / Dining Room Support – Patients with an Eating Disorder

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To Whom It May Concern, I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I would be grateful if you could provide copies of any internal guidelines, protocols, policies or standard operating procedures that relate specifically to mealtime/ dining room support in the treatment of eating disorders within your services.

This includes, but is not limited to documents that cover:

– expectations and roles of staff during mealtimes
– levels of supervision and support before, during and after meals or snacks management of meal‑related distress, behaviours or incidents
– use of any structured mealtime programmes or approaches
– nasogastric feeding or the use of oral nutrition supplements If different guidelines are used in different settings,

Please provide all relevant documents. For example, where your organisation has separate or adapted guidance for: inpatient wards day‑hospital or day‑programme services intensive outpatient / intensive community treatment outpatient or community services Similarly.

I would also be grateful if you could provide all protocol versions, if different protocols apply to different age groups, including: adult eating disorder services CAMHS / children and young people’s eating disorder services all‑age or transition services, if applicable

If your organisation does not have written mealtime support guidelines, please kindly let me know.

If you require any clarification in order to process this request, please let me know.

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Vegan Options at NHS

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I am writing to request information on vegan options. I request the information below under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Freedom of Information Request
1. Have you undertaken an equality impact assessment for vegans at the NHS? If yes, can you provide a copy of the assessment?

2. Are you following your public sector equality duty toward vegans? Please provide any documents or information to explain whether and how the PSED is being followed towards vegans.

3. Do you guarantee a full vegan option that is nutritionally appropriate on all NHS menus and cafeterias at all times, for all meals, including breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack options. By ‘guaranteed’ I mean, is there always a fully vegan option available.

For clarity, a salad without a plant-based protein and starch or carbohydrate would obviously not be nutritionally appropriate, nor would having only fruit or toast with jam available for a vegan person. For example, many vegetarian options adapted to be vegan would not be nutritionally appropriate as they would be lacking in protein unless there was a substitution provided.

4. Do you guarantee plant milk availability on all NHS campuses for coffee and tea? For clarity, plant milk refers to: Soy, oat, almond, or coconut milk.

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Community Eating Disorders Service

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for data around your Community Eating Disorders Service.

Active (not historic) current data set (Snapshot) of your Community Eating Disorders Service data, otherwise not available via other methods (online data collections).

Please complete the two tables provided.

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