About NAED

The National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED) is a new audit programme commissioned in August 2024 by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnerships (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) on behalf of NHS England.

The National Audit of Eating Disorders seeks to drive improvement of the identification and appropriate management of eating disorders and the quality and consistency of services for children and young people (CYP), adults of working age and older adults.

The NAED will run from August 2024 to July 2027. Overarching quality improvement objectives focus on key areas of quality care namely that services are safe, effective, patient centred, timely, efficient and equitable.

The first year of the audit contract will be a developmental year, involving project scoping and service mapping activities. Audit metrics will be developed in consultation with clinicians, patients, carers and other relevant stakeholders to capture access and treatment with regard to eating disorders.

In years 2 and 3, the audit will collect, link and analyse national scale data relevant to the audit metrics in order to report on performance and outcomes for eating disorders access and treatment.

We work with professional bodies, voluntary sector providers and campaigning organisations and comply with the CCQI ethical audit standards.

Steering Group

Members from relevant partner organisations and other key stakeholders will sit on the NAED Steering Group. The purpose of this group is to provide our project team with expertise from multiple backgrounds to plan, structure, carry out and interpret the results of the audit fully and without bias. The group will be convened in year 1 of the audit, at which point a list of members will be listed here.

Implementation Group

The coordinates expert and specialist input into audit development and operation. It comprises:

  • Clinical and Strategic Director of the CCQI – Professor Dasha Nicholls
  • Clinical Advisor – Professor Ulrike Schmidt
  • Clinical Advisor – Dr Karina Allen
  • Patient Advisor – TBC
  • Carer Advisor – TBC
  • NAED project team

Service User and Carer Advisory Group (SUCAG)

The Service User and Carer Advisory Group (SUCAG) is made up of individuals who have lived experience of eating disorders services, either as a patient or a carer for someone who has used an eating disorders service. The group is coordinated and facilitated by our partnering eating disorders charity, Beat.

The SUCAG will work in parallel to the Steering Group and with our Patient and Carer Advisors to provide collective feedback on key decisions in the audit to ensure these reflect issues of importance to patients with eating disorders and their families/carers.

NAED Project Team

  • Head of Clinical Audits and research – Dr Alan Quirk
  • Programme Manager – Philippa Nunn
  • Deputy Programme Manager – Rachel Davies
  • Project Officer – TBA
  • Project Officer – TBA

For a full breakdown of our project structure, please see the NAED Organogram.

The Faculty of Eating Disorders Psychiatry

The NAED are collaborating with the Faculty of Eating Disorders Psychiatry who will provide additional clinical leadership to the audit.

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