National Specification for the Care and Treatment of Eating Disorders in Scotland - Consultation Analysis Report

Appendix A: Consultation Questions

Part 1: questions on the overall specification document

Q1. How far do you agree that the Specification will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder care and treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q2. How far do you agree that the Specification will improve the outcomes for those accessing support and treatment for an eating disorder?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q3. How far do you agree that the Specification successfully set out to individuals, their families and carers what they can expect when they access eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q4. We know that currently not everyone has the same experiences or outcomes when they access eating disorder treatment. We want the Specification to help make sure that your needs are met, whoever you are and whatever your background. How far do you agree that the Specification will help do this?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q5. This Specification sits underneath the new Core Mental Health and Wellbeing Standards. In the draft Specification document, we have provided a link to the Core Mental Health Standards. Do you think it would be helpful to include the full Core Mental Health and Wellbeing Standards in the document or only provide a link to them?

[The link to the Core Mental Health Standards for Scotland is sufficient.

It would be better to include the full Core Mental Health and Wellbeing Standards.

Other, please explain:]

Q6. We want the Specification to be as accessible and as easy to understand as possible. Do you have any suggestions on how this could be improved? For example we are planning to develop an easy read version of this document.

Q7. Do you have any other comments on the Specification overall?

Part 2: questions on the specific outcomes

Questions on Outcome 1: Leadership and Governance

Q8. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 1 - Leadership and Governance will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q9. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 1 - Leadership and Governance” will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q10. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how the “Outcome 1 - Leadership and Governance” will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 2: Service Structure

Q11. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 2 - Service structure” will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q12. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 2 - Service structure" will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q13. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how the “Outcome 2 - Service structure” will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 3: Access to Care

Q14. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 3 – Access to care” will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q15. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 3 – Access to care” will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q16. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how the “Outcome 3 – Access to care” will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 4: Supporting People with Co-occurring Considerations and Comorbidities

Q17. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 4 - Supporting people with co-occurring considerations and comorbidities" will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q18. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 4 - Supporting people with co-occurring considerations and comorbidities" will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q19. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how the Outcome will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 5: Assessment and Medical Monitoring

Q20. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 5 - Assessment and medical monitoring" will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q21. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 5 - Assessment and medical monitoring" will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q22. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how “Outcome 5 - Assessment and medical monitoring" will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 6: Transitions

Q23. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 6 - Transitions" will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q24. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 6 - Transitions" will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q25. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how the “Outcome 6 - Transitions" will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 7: Discharge

Q26. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 7 - Discharge" will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q27. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 7 - Discharge" will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q28. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how “Outcome 7 - Discharge" will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 8: Education and Training

Q29. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 8 - Education and training" will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q30. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 8 - Education and training" will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q31. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how “Outcome 8 - Education and training" will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Questions on Outcome 9: Shared and Supported Decision-making

Q32. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 9 - Shared and supported decision-making" will improve the experiences of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q33. How far do you agree that the statements within “Outcome 9 - Shared and supported decision-making" will improve the outcomes of people accessing eating disorder treatment?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q34. Reading the “Outcome in Action”, which is intended to describe how “Outcome 9 - Shared and supported decision-making" will be delivered, do you have any other comments about the Outcome?

Part 3: implementation and measurement

Q35. Overall, what support do you think services will need to implement the National Specification for the Care and Treatment of Eating Disorders in Scotland?

Q36. How far do you agree that the Specification should be measured using a validated self-assessment tool?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q37. How far do you agree that the Specification should be measured using a range of indicators?

[Strongly Agree / Agree / Neither Agree or Disagree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree]

Q38. Do you have any other comments on the possible questions to include in the self-assessment, including any further suggestions?

Q39. We know that currently not everyone has the same experiences or outcomes when they receive treatment for an eating disorder. We want this Specification to help make sure that services meet your needs whoever you are and whatever your background. How would you suggest that we support services to reduce inequalities in the outcomes and experiences of people who use services, including in the measurement of the Specification?