Response to interpellations 2025/26:27 and 57 regarding statements on eating disorder care
Translated from Swedish by AI; the translation may contain errors. The Swedish text is the original.
Summary AI, written in advance
The debate concerns eating disorder care and the government's initiatives. KD considers that the care does not function well enough and that the regions often do not follow national guidelines 1. KD argues that highly specialized care is underutilized 1 and that the government is making a targeted investment to improve accessibility and quality 1. KD emphasizes that distorted beauty ideals on social media are a major culprit 2. KD considers that accessibility in Region Stockholm has increased dramatically 1 2. S argues that the government does not answer questions regarding factual basis 3 and that the finance minister's misleading statements affect tax morale 3. S considers incorrect information from the department to be unprofessional 4. S argues that Region Stockholm has shortened the care queues compared to the previous moderately led government 4. S argues that it is unworthy that ministers have misled the public without a factual basis 5. S argues that accessibility in Region Stockholm has improved and that those who have claimed the opposite have either lied or been unaware 6.
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Socialministern Jakob Forssmed (KD)
Madam Speaker! Markus Kallifatides has asked the Minister for Finance on what facts she bases her statement on regarding the eating disorder care in Stockholm and how she assesses the socio-economic consequences if it turns out that she and the government are conveying incorrect information about the eating disorder care in Region Stockholm. Furthermore, Mathias Tegnér has asked the Minister for Finance on what circumstances and facts she based her statement on regarding the eating disorder care in Region Stockholm and how she assesses that tax morale is affected if it turns out that she and the government are conveying misleading information.
The work within the government is distributed in such a way that it is I who shall answer the interpellations.
I would like to initially thank Markus Kallifatides and Mathias Tegnér for their commitment to the issue of care for persons with eating disorder issues. It is an important issue that I believe we need to focus much more on.
Today's care for various eating disorders varies greatly, both between and within the regions. There are good examples but also lacking quality and long waiting times for treatment. The treatment methods also vary, and some patient groups do not receive care for their eating disorder, partly due to a lack of resources. There is also a lack of sufficient knowledge about different eating disorders in several parts of the health and medical care, while at the same time, highly specialized care is underutilized. These are just some of the deficiencies that Socialstyrelsen addresses in, among other things, the national guidelines for care and support for eating disorders. There is a great need for improvements here.
The Government has taken several important initiatives to support the regions in the development of care for persons with eating disorder issues. On behalf of the Government, the National Board of Health and Welfare has developed the already mentioned national guidelines for care and support in eating disorders, which aim to improve care and make it more equitable. The Government has further tasked the National Board of Health and Welfare with disseminating and contributing to the implementation of the guidelines and associated knowledge support to provide practical support to professionals within health and medical care, dental care, and social services who meet persons with an eating disorder.
The Government has further tasked Socialstyrelsen to establish national development teams that shall provide the regions with practical support in their development of psychiatry for increased quality, accessibility, and efficiency.
The National Board of Health and Welfare has further decided that certain care for difficult-to-treat eating disorders shall constitute national highly specialized care. This care is provided at five units for adults and three units for children.
Furthermore, the agreement between the government and Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner, Increased accessibility to child and adolescent psychiatry 2025–2026, has been significantly strengthened during the mandate period and amounts to 1 billion kronor in 2025, while at the same time a targeted investment in primary care's work with mental ill-health is being carried out.
This is more than what any other government has done previously, and I have mentioned the targeted investment of 50 million kronor during 2025 which is being carried out to increase accessibility to child and adolescent psychiatry and shorten queues with a particular focus on care for eating disorders, for example by promoting transition to other forms of care with more available capacity such as highly specialized care. In the budget bill for 2026 (prop. 2025/26:1), the government proposes a continued targeted investment in eating disorder care amounting to 100 million kronor in 2026 and is expected to amount to 100 million kronor per year in 2027 and 2028.
In order for these initiatives to yield results, the regions, regardless of political affiliation, need to intensify their efforts to create the conditions for good care and nursing regarding eating disorder issues. There is every reason for the regions to be self-critical here.
The government prioritizes eating disorder care. Now it is up to each region to do the same.
Markus Kallifatides (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you, Minister for Social Affairs, for the answer!
This interpellation, therefore, concerns statements that, among others, Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson has made and which I have specified in my interpellation.
Elisabeth Svantesson in the Riksdag on September 22, 2025: ”Here in Stockholm … they raise taxes and shut down eating disorder clinics because they cannot understand that one can prioritize and have a tax policy that favors hard-working people.”
Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Grönvall here in the House of Commons on September 18, 2025: ”We see that there are regions that, for ideological reasons, are closing down well-functioning eating disorder clinics.”
Member of Parliament Merit Frost Lindberg here in the chamber of the Riksdag on December 16, 2024: ”Not least, one drastically reduces the choices of care within women's healthcare, especially within gynecological activities and eating disorder care, for ideological reasons.”
It is those statements that my interpellation concerns.
I will provide some background. During 2022, an in-depth follow-up was initiated regarding an agreement within Region Stockholm with a specific company that provided specialized eating disorder care.
During the in-depth review conducted by the Health and Medical Services Committee, very serious criticism emerged both against the Health and Medical Services Committee's previous handling and against this company. It concerned incorrect invoicing and incorrectly accounted for and registered healthcare visits. It concerned, to a large extent, unlicensed staff within the operations. It concerned that treatments of sometimes very fragile patients were not individualized to a sufficient extent, among other things. Simultaneously with this, a reorganization of the entire healthcare area for eating disorder care in Region Stockholm, initiated by the then Moderate-led majority during the 2018–2022 mandate period, was underway.
Summa summarum: This single company did not receive any new agreement with Region Stockholm to provide eating disorder care. The company's specific treatment method has also later, in 2024, been explained as not resting on a sufficiently scientific basis in the national guidelines in this area mentioned by the Minister for Social Affairs.
Today, the accessibility within eating disorder care in Region Stockholm has increased from around 33 percent of patients within the care guarantee's time limits to nearly 100 percent. The care is provided within primary psychiatric care, adult psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, but also at Stockholm's Center for Eating Disorder Care, which is a national knowledge center in the field.
My interpellation is therefore about the factual background to the statements made by the Minister for Finance, as well as the Minister for Social Services and one additional Member of Parliament, regarding this important healthcare activity. Against that background and the Minister for Social Services' opening response, I would like to repeat the first question. What was the factual basis for these claims?
Mathias Tegnér (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you, Minister for Social Affairs, for the answer!
I wrote this interpellation in some form of restrained anger over the fact that Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson, whom I often describe as a capable Finance Minister, even though we often disagree, joined the ranks of ministers who actually mislead and make things up when it comes to healthcare in Region Stockholm.
As a Stockholmer, I turn toward the fact that the government appears to treat us as a political punching bag. That is why I submitted an interpellation to the Minister for Finance after she, on several occasions, spoke obviously incorrectly about Region Stockholm and the eating disorder care in Region Stockholm. What I want to get an answer on is how these inaccuracies risk affecting tax morale. That is, after all, an area that the Minister for Finance is responsible for.
I mean that it is deceptive to say as the Minister for Finance did, namely that Region Stockholm is closing eating disorder clinics because one cannot prioritize. It is not true. It is not a reasonable description of the truth. This has also been clearly clarified by Member Kallifatides.
I am personally extremely humble regarding how difficult eating disorder care is. I am not a healthcare politician myself, but I can read a report. Therefore, I turn to the fact that eating disorder care in Stockholm appears to have become a political punching bag and that one completely seems to ignore what has happened in reality.
What has happened is, just as Member Kallifatides said, that a company whose contract has expired, which has obviously overbilled Region Stockholm and which does not follow Socialstyrelsen's guidelines for eating disorder care, has not been able to continue its operations. It is not the same thing as saying that politicians in Region Stockholm cannot prioritize.
Madam Speaker! When a Finance Minister stands here in the Swedish Riksdag and spreads something that is incorrect, it risks damaging trust in healthcare but also the willingness to pay taxes. That is why I submitted the interpellation to the Finance Minister regarding how her words risk affecting tax morale. But instead of her coming here and standing by her words or explaining the background to them and explaining the knowledge base, which is what we have asked for, the Social Minister comes here to sweep up the remains of the statements.
The Minister for Social Affairs is a very capable politician and a skilled rhetorician, but I still think it is remarkable and actually unworthy that the Minister for Finance does not answer these questions. The Minister for Finance is not just a political voice among others. She is responsible for the tax system. She writes regulatory letters to the Swedish Tax Agency concerning the maintenance of tax morale in our country.
It is clear that if one says obviously incorrect things about tax-funded healthcare, it also risks affecting tax morale and affecting trust in the state. Therefore, I see it as very serious that the Finance Minister acts in this way and furthermore does not come here. Therefore, I repeat the question I have asked the Finance Minister, but now I ask it to the Minister for Social Affairs. How does the Minister for Social Affairs assess that tax morale is affected if it turns out that the Finance Minister and the government convey misleading information about tax-funded activities?
Anna Vikström (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you, Minister for Social Affairs, for the answer!
Region Stockholm has largely no waiting times for eating disorder care at Stockholms centrum för ätstörningar. During the first half of 2025, 100 percent of patients started treatment within the care guarantee's 90 days. This is a significant improvement since 2022 when the Moderaterna were in power and only 33 percent received care in time.
From the Ministry of Social Affairs, statements have been made that there are regions that close eating disorder clinics for ideological reasons, with reference to Region Stockholm. That is not true.
Now, eating disorder care should be included in other psychiatric care for patients with multiple concurrent mental illnesses, that is, comorbidity. That care is organized with access to care for comorbidity is included in the National Board of Health and Welfare's national guidelines for eating disorder care. That was not how the specialized eating disorder care was organized previously in the region.
On what grounds is it claimed that the eating disorder care, where comorbidity can be treated within psychiatry if there is a need for it, is worse? The words that have been used are that the eating disorder care is dismantled.
I think, Madam Speaker, that there is reason to be very humble when it comes to eating disorder care in general due to the complexity and the patients' great needs, and also considering the National Board of Health and Welfare's national guidelines on eating disorder care and the complexity in different diagnoses, forms of care, and treatments, and that the scientific support for treatment forms for individual diagnoses is sometimes not sufficiently strong at all. But that has not prevented ministers in the government from speaking with absolute certainty about how eating disorder care should be designed and organized specifically in Stockholm – sometimes also what it should contain.
It is very surprising that ministers from different parts of the government – including from the Ministry of Social Affairs – are making incorrect claims that the queues have grown in Stockholm and that there are longer waiting times for first visits and treatment, when in fact almost all patients now begin treatment within the guarantee period compared to when only 33 percent received eating disorder care in time under the previous regime.
In short, Region Stockholm no longer has waiting times for eating disorder care. The region has now organized eating disorder care so that it is included in over-psychiatric care. This will make it easier for patients with multiple diagnoses to receive their care in the same place.
I also want to comment on the information in the Minister for Social Affairs' response regarding the government mandate on national guidelines for eating disorder care. Lena Hallengren gave this mandate to the National Board of Health and Welfare on December 22, 2021. It did not quite appear from the Minister for Social Affairs' response that the mandate came from the previous government.
In other respects, I join Markus Kallifatides and Mathias Tegnér's questions.
Socialministern Jakob Forssmed (KD)
Madam Speaker! I would like to thank the interpellants and other participants for the debate.
First, a bit of formality: Who answers interpellations is regulated by the laws, ordinances, and regulations that apply. One answers what is judged to fall within one's area of responsibility. That is how it works, and that is why I am here and answering these interpellations. One can, of course, discuss whether they are correctly formulated. But the reason why I am here and answering them is governed by the rules that the Government Offices must comply with.
So to the question. My perception is that the eating disorder care in Sweden does not function sufficiently well today, and I am absolutely certain of that. In many places, good work is being done, but all too often the best available methods are not used. The activities are not conducted according to the knowledge and proven experience that has emerged, and the Socialstyrelsen's guidelines are not followed to a sufficiently high extent.
Something that I find offensive and deeply unworthy of Sweden's eating disorder care is that we have capacity in the national highly specialized care, which is located in five places in Sweden, that is underutilized. People are not receiving sufficiently good care and treatment because the regions do not refer to the best eating disorder care in Sweden. I think it is astonishing and very serious.
Among other things, that is why the government is now making a targeted investment in eating disorder care, firstly to ensure that the guidelines are implemented in a better way and secondly to ensure that we utilize the capacity we have in the country to provide better care and treatment for very fragile and vulnerable people with often very difficult problems. That is where my focus lies: to get the whole thing to function better and for more people to receive the right help at the right time. In that, accessibility and quality play a major role.
I have personally visited the Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders. It was not very long ago that I was there. I got a good impression of the operation and how it is conducted. This applies in particular to the fact that they work with what Anna Vikström describes, namely comorbidity, and that in connection with the care, they also try to help with other psychiatric conditions and diagnoses. Then, this is not always easy. Some people are very fragile and vulnerable. Sometimes this can be difficult to carry out in practice, but nevertheless, it is important that one has the ambition to follow the guidelines that exist.
As for Stockholm, I am also receiving signals from some employees in the operation who contact me saying that they do not think it is functioning well enough. There is also a lively discussion in Region Stockholm regarding the content and scope of the healthcare. Whether it has changed in different ways when accessibility has been increased is a good and important discussion that needs to be conducted.
Regarding the waiting times, it is good that the availability in eating disorder care in Region Stockholm has increased. It has gone relatively quickly at the end to significantly increase the availability, which is very good. A couple of years ago, however, there were very long waiting times. People who were discharged from eating disorder care could have to wait a long time before they could return to the extent they needed it. Increasing the availability is absolutely crucial.
In that respect, criticism can be directed at the management. They carried this out without having a clear plan for how the accessibility would be implemented.
Markus Kallifatides (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you, Minister for Social Affairs, for the contribution and the answer!
I remind again what my questions in this interpellation were. The first question concerned the factual background to the statements here in the Riksdag chamber regarding the eating disorder care in Stockholm from the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Social Services, and a named Moderate MP.
I take the liberty of elaborating on what has emerged regarding the only private healthcare company that no longer has an agreement to provide specialized eating disorder care in Region Stockholm in the report that the Health and Social Services Administration has produced. It is a so-called in-depth follow-up from January 2023.
The company in question is urged to ensure that medical assessments are made by licensed personnel. The company is urged to carry out measures to improve the quality of medical records, suicide risk assessments, and care plans. The company should improve its internal routines regarding the referral of patients. The company should systematize the work with documentation, investigation, and compilation to a greater extent. I could continue even further.
The Health and Medical Care Administration, in turn, urges itself to take measures due to the incorrect reporting of healthcare visits, coding of healthcare visits, and so on. It urges itself to follow up on how exactly this company conducts medical and psychological treatment for the fragile patients in this target group.
This is my factual basis. I am not an expert in the field of healthcare or eating disorder care, but I can read these reports. I have asked a question about the factual background to the statements made by the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Social Services, and a Moderate MP regarding the eating disorder care in Region Stockholm. I am happy to give Social Services Minister Jakob Forssmed another chance to answer it. Was there any such factual basis, and if so, which one? That is what I am interested in getting an answer to.
I would also like to receive an answer to my second question, namely how the Minister assesses the socio-economic consequences of leading representatives at the national level providing, as I see it, directly misleading information about important healthcare activities in a large region in Sweden. I am concerned that the efficiency of the activities is diminished and that, in the long run, tax morale may possibly be undermined, as Mathias Tegnér has focused on. In the worst case, it could lead to individuals not having trust in the care they themselves undergo or are in need of.
I would very much like to have answers to these questions. I hope to receive them in this debate.
Mathias Tegnér (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you for the answer, Minister for Social Affairs!
As I said in my previous post, the Minister for Social Affairs is a capable politician and a skilled rhetorician. The debate so far has been so clarifying in such a way that the Minister actually does not answer the questions that we have asked.
The Minister himself began with the formal, and both the Instrument of Government and the parliamentary procedure deal with the oversight responsibility that the Riksdag has in relation to the government. Therefore, it is remarkable that we do not receive answers to our questions.
Then I still think it is remarkable that the Minister for Finance does not answer this. I perceive it as an interpretation of the rules that it should be the Minister for Social Security who is responsible for answering whether tax morale is negatively affected by the Minister for Finance's misleading statements.
Several of the questions that the Minister for Social Affairs raises are, however, relevant. It is extremely important to talk about eating disorder care. But in this specific debate, it partially becomes a way to avoid answering the questions that are actually asked: What factual basis did the Minister for Finance have when she spoke about eating disorder care? How does it affect tax morale if the Minister for Finance makes incorrect statements about the care in Region Stockholm?
That we are not getting any answers indicates that there are actually no proper underlying documents. The Moderates in the Government Offices seem to have decided to prioritize their own party over reality – to find a conflict between Stockholm and the government, regardless of whether this is based on reality or on things that are constructed.
Then we arrive at my second question, which concerns tax morale and whether it is affected when the government skivs on the truth. This is an area that the Minister for Finance is responsible for. In regulatory letters, the Minister for Finance asks the Swedish Tax Agency to specifically nurture tax morale. It is therefore natural that the Minister for Finance answers the question I have posed. How is tax morale affected when the Minister for Finance skives on the truth? If it is now the Minister for Social Security who is to answer that question, I await the answer, Minister for Social Security.
When the Minister for Finance uses falsehoods as a political weapon, furthermore here in the Swedish Riksdag, and then does not make an effort to come here, trust is eroded. I think that this is not only bad style but also risks being harmful to our democracy.
I would have liked to hear the Minister for Finance explain how she believes tax morale is affected by the fact that a Minister for Finance is not present when she speaks here in the Swedish Riksdag. But now she is not here, and again: For me, that says it all. Therefore, I ask the Minister for Social Affairs once again: How does the Minister for Social Affairs believe the Minister for Finance's misleading information affects tax morale?
Anna Vikström (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you again, Minister for Social Affairs, for the answer!
Region Stockholm has shortened the care queues and now has, for the most part, no queues for eating disorder care, which is a major improvement compared to 2022, under the previous Moderate-led government. The care provided makes it easier for patients with one or more additional psychiatric diagnoses to receive care in the same place, while at the same time we are well aware that these are very complex needs. One must be very humble when discussing these patients' needs and how the care should be organized.
It appears from the national guidelines from Socialstyrelsen that there is a good reason to organize care in such a way that one has access to care in cases of comorbidity. Then, a minister or Member of Parliament should not make categorical claims about which treatment methods are best for different diagnoses, especially if these claims do not follow the national guidelines. When even ministers from the Ministry of Health spread incorrect information about care queues in Stockholm, this also reaches patients and relatives, who receive a false picture, as well as other healthcare providers around all over Sweden. This is unprofessional and can cause harm. It should be a matter for the Minister for Health, as head of the Ministry of Health, that incorrect information is spread from the department.
One can also reflect on whether the ministers' recurring criticism of Region Stockholm's eating disorder care and incorrect statements about queues affect how many patients are referred to national highly specialized care in Stockholm. It is, as the minister has said, concerning that too few are referred. I hope that this does not have an impact.
Socialministern Jakob Forssmed (KD)
Madam Speaker! Thanks to the members for the continued debate regarding these issues!
It does not fall to me as Minister for Social Affairs to evaluate individual actors in Region Stockholm in that manner. But I can state that it is incredibly important that care is improved in all regions and that the national initiatives that are now being made will benefit the patients.
Regarding referrals to national highly specialized care, which Anna Vikström was touching upon and which I myself raised in my speech, this unfortunately does not only apply to Region Stockholm. This capacity exists in several places in Sweden, but the regions choose not to refer. I find it remarkable and actually unworthy. One can truly wonder what it does to the tax morale if one does not utilize this capacity to provide help and support to people who belong to the most vulnerable in our country. They do not receive the best possible care and treatment when multiprofessional teams stand ready to provide exactly this. I think we need to find ways to ensure that this is utilized to a much greater extent.
I agree that it is important to also discuss social economy and tax morale in relation to these issues. It is incredibly important that it functions sufficiently well and that this is utilized in the best possible way when we collect taxes from the citizens, and especially when we raise taxes. These are important discussions to have – I do not think it is strange that one does so. But we shall, of course, do it properly and in a good way.
Eating disorder care in Sweden is in need of improvements. Member Kallifatides highlights a number of quotes from a report that was directed at a single actor, which I choose not to review further. But those statements about the single actor can to a large extent be directed towards eating disorder care in Sweden – that is what the National Board of Health and Welfare's national guidelines show. It is not conducted to a sufficient extent based on knowledge and proven experience. That type of objection can be directed towards eating disorder care generally in Sweden. My main task is to try to make it function better.
I am glad that the accessibility in Region Stockholm has increased quite dramatically recently compared to not only 2022 but also 2023 and 2024, when the waiting times were very long. It is good that the accessibility is increasing.
I also note a discussion about the content of the care. But I also think it is good that it is conducted with a focus on comorbidity and that there is an opportunity for interventions when it comes to underlying causes of eating disorders. In many cases, it can be about different types of psychiatric conditions or diagnoses that need to be treated simultaneously. It is good when that can happen.
A general reflection regarding this topic is also that we, according to Bris's report, have had approximately 400 percent more calls to Bris concerning eating disorders since 2016. There is a large and important debate to be had in our country. What are the ideals that young people are fed with, hour by hour, that lead them into increasingly destructive content? Eating disorders often have many and complex causes, but it is not possible to turn a blind eye to the extremely skewed beauty and body ideals that are spread unfiltered to our children via social media, hour by hour, which is a major culprit in this drama. We cannot only discuss the care for eating disorders but must also talk about what causes eating disorders.
Markus Kallifatides (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you, the Minister for Social Affairs, for the debate! What have we learned from this debate? We have learned that the accessibility to the important eating disorder care in Region Stockholm has significantly improved. Care is now conducted more in accordance with recent national guidelines than before. We have learned that Minister for Social Affairs Jakob Forssmed views this positively and is continuing to work on a number of fronts to further improve this.
This was not what my interpellation was about. I note that we have learned from the debate that when Minister for Finance Elisabeth Svantesson, Minister for Social Services Camilla Waltersson Grönvall and another Moderate member here in the Riksdag have commented on the eating disorder care in Region Stockholm, there was no factual basis. People have talked nonsense! The public has been misled. This, I believe, Minister for Social Services, is remarkable and unworthy.
This was somewhat the point of this interpellation. I am pleased that it has been clarified that this is where we stand. As a side note, I want to say that I truly hope that the Minister for Social Affairs does his utmost to ensure that this nonsense about Swedish health and medical care, including healthcare activities in Region Stockholm, ceases.
Mathias Tegnér (S)
Madam Speaker! Thank you, Minister, for the answer and for the debate!
I want to start by saying that I am extremely humble before the complexity of eating disorder care. Fundamentally, I am not a healthcare policy expert.
I also appreciate the Minister's commitment to the issue. I wish you success in the work with an extremely difficult issue. I can also share the Minister's views linked to problematic beauty ideals in society.
But one reason why the Minister reflects specifically on beauty ideals and generally on eating disorder care is likely also that the questions we have asked are difficult to answer. They are difficult to answer because there were no knowledge bases that the Finance Minister used, and if there were any, she has obviously used them incorrectly.
Therefore, I still want to thank the Minister for the sensible statements that have been given here, which I perceive to be in accordance with the truth, for example that the accessibility in eating disorder care in Region Stockholm has improved. There is black and white that is the case. We also know, therefore, that those who have claimed the opposite have either lied or been unaware. Both of these things are extremely serious.
I would like to conclude by thanking the Minister for Social Affairs for the debate. I would also like to direct a message to the Minister for Social Affairs. This type of circularity within the Moderate Party, where one obviously fabricates regarding Region Stockholm to create political conflicts, must cease, so that we can have a proper debate about the problems in Sweden. It is not worthy of Sweden that we have a government that works in this way.
Socialministern Jakob Forssmed (KD)
Madam Speaker! Thanks to the interveners for the debate!
My focus lies on achieving a better functioning eating disorder care in Sweden. That is why the government is now making these investments aimed at eating disorder care, because eating disorder care does not function sufficiently well. It needs to be developed. It needs to become more knowledge-based. It needs to follow the national guidelines. Not least, we need to utilize all the capacity that currently exists, for example at the Stockholm Centre for Eating Disorders. There, I also hope to receive help from the Social Democrats, who sit in the leadership of many regions in Sweden that choose not to refer patients to the national highly specialized care. There we need to help each other and ensure that we use the capacity that is available to help some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
Accessibility is important. It is good that it has increased in Stockholm. I think at the same time that there are reasons for the management in Stockholm to examine themselves regarding how the transition took place. Not very long ago, there were very long waiting times for eating disorder care in the Stockholm region. It created problems and a vulnerability for people in that care. Naturally, a discussion must be held, just as is being done now in Stockholm, regarding the care content and care quality in the eating disorder care that is being conducted.
With that said, I appreciate the debaters' commitment to this important issue. We need to become better in Sweden. We need to become better in many areas. We need to utilize the capacity that exists in a better way.
I thank you for the commitment and for the discussion.
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