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5 Live Investigates: No bed for 'dying' anorexia man

18/12/2016

No bed for 'dying' anorexia man

BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live Investigates, No bed for 'dying' anorexia man

Simon Rickards says he will die if he does not get in-patient treatment for anorexia.

Simon Rickards says he will die if he does not get in-patient treatment for anorexia. He has been on an urgent referral list for a bed for nearly ten weeks.

Simon Rickards says he will die if he doesn't get treatment for anorexia. He's been on an urgent referral list for an in-patient bed for nearly ten weeks. He says specialist hospital care could save his life. He contacted 5 live Investigates when  the programme told the story of 19-year-old Fiona Hollings who is having to be treated for an eating disorder in Glasgow - 400 miles from her family home. She's one of many who've been left isolated from friends and family because of an acute shortage of beds. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder - and after exposing the huge problems women face getting the help they need to combat eating disorders, the programme reveals that men have an even tougher battle.

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