HSE National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders in Ireland: COVID-19 pandemic and eating disorder care in a new national eating disorder service.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic experience was different in each country (e.g., prevalence, societal restrictions).

National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders: a pragmatic review of a new national eating disorder service in Ireland.

Objective: The Health Service Executive National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders (NCPED) launched a Model of Care for Eating Disorder Services in Ireland in 2018. Currently, one adult and two child and adolescent eating disorder services are operational out of a total of sixteen recommended. The three objectives of this paper are to describe the early (1) referral pattern, (2) level of service activity and (3) the level of service user satisfaction.

Mental health impacts of COVID-19 in Ireland and the need for a secondary care mental health service response.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health emergency, the scale, speed and nature of which is beyond anything most of us have experienced in our lifetimes. The mental health burden associated with this pandemic is also likely to surpass anything we have previously experienced. In this editorial, we seek to anticipate the nature of this additional mental health burden and make recommendations on how to mitigate against and prepare for this significant increase in mental health service demand.