WA Parliamentary Question on Notice regarding the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Eating Disorders Service, detailing patient numbers, service delivery, budget, wait times, and demographics from 2021-22 to 2025-26.

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Asked
16 October 2025
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Mental Health

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I refer to specialist services operated by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), in each of the following fiscal years, 2021-22; 2022-23; 2023-24; 2024-25 and 2025-26, and I ask: (a) How many patients were seen by the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service; (b) How many occasions of service were delivered by the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service; (c) What was the operating budget for the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service; (d) What was the average wait time to receive treatment through the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service; (e) What percentage of children accessing the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service live regionally; and (f) What percentage of children accessing the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service identify as indigenous?

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Answered
18 November 2025
Responded by
Minister for Mental Health
Response time
7 days
2021-22
2022-23
2023-24
2024-25
2025-26 to date
(a)
202
196
209
213
118
(b)
15,212
16,516
19,143
15,718
4,036
(c)
$4,490,224
$5,919,000
$6,161,000
$6,251,078
$6,618,641*
(d)
9.7 days
6.5 days
2.7 days
3.1 days
2.3 days
(e)
16.0%
19.4%
17.1%
13.3%
10.8%
(f)
2.1%
1.1%
0.0%
0.9%
2.6%
*2025-26 Full year

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