Table 1.

Demand: source, age and gender of referrals to six adult community eating disorder services in 2019–2020 per million population

		Referrals, median (range)a	Mean % of referrals
Source of referrals	General practitioner	294 (136–467)	68.3
	Adult community mental health team	22 (18–160)	13.3
	Child and adolescent mental health services	6 (0–54)	3.7
	Self	0 (0–36)	1.6
	Acute mental health in-patient units	0(0–6)	0.5
	Other	59 (1–99)	12.6
Age range, years	18 to <25	210 (157–341)	46.3
	≥25	244 (163–340)	53.7
Gender	Male	37 (25–59)	8.2
	Female	416 (300–584)	91.7
	Other	0.3 (0–1)	0.1

^a.Medians and ranges are included as the data for ‘Source of referrals’ were not normally distributed.