A series of pilot schemes commissioned by NHS England to treat a life-threatening eating disorder are at risk of closure.

A new Private Member’s Bill has been introduced in Parliament calling for mandatory eating disorder and disordered eating training for frontline public service workers, in a move campaigners say could save lives through earlier identification and intervention.

Wera Hobhouse, Liberal Democrat MP for Bath and Chair of the Eating Disorders All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), has marked World...