The Regional Eating Disorders Unit (REDU) is a 12 bedded specialist inpatient unit for people with a severe Eating Disorder living in the South East of Scotland.
Located on the lower ground floor of St John’s Hospital in Livingston, the unit works closely with community healthcare services from the Borders, Fife, Forth Valley and Lothian regions (to provide individualised care for patients with an Eating Disorder.)
Inpatient Care
Admission to the unit may be required to address the nutritional, psychological and/or physical health aspects of their Eating Disorder.
The broad ways in which the regional unit can help people with a severe Eating Disorder are:
- medical stabilisation
- provision of nutritional support and re-feeding
- addressing psychological & psychiatric instability causing worsening physical health
- ongoing psychological assessment and treatment
