Policy & Service Development in NSW
Service Plan for People with an Eating Disorder
The NSW Service Plan for People with Eating Disorders 2013 – 2018 was released by the NSW Government in September 2013 to guide the development and expansion of quality care for people with eating disorders across the state. The Service Plan was the first of its kind nationally mandating change for the treatment of eating disorders within the health system.
InsideOut was chosen as the organisation to lead and drive the implementation of this broad mandate for service development and expansion.
The Service Plan requires a whole of health reform, driven centrally and implemented locally, to prepare and equip the NSW Health system to identify, provide access to, and treat people with eating disorders. This Service Plan has enabled the development of new hospital and community services for eating disorders – the single largest and most ambitious eating disorder clinical redesign ever undertaken nationwide.
The Role of the Eating Disorder Coordinators
InsideOut secured funding from NSW Health for 16 eating disorder coordinators located in districts across New South Wales. The local eating disorder coordinators support the implementation of their local Service Plan and provide clinical consultations and support to health professionals and teams treating people with eating disorders.
Their role includes leadership, strategy and implementation, service development, workforce development, clinical practice advice and support as well as knowledge management.
The Local NSW Eating Disorder Coordinators
The Role of the Tertiary Hubs
The NSW tertiary hubs are expert centres for the treatment of eating disorders. As well as providing treatment services for the most severely unwell individuals and their families in NSW, these centres provide support to other services around the state that are providing treatment to people with eating disorders.
Their services include tertiary inpatient treatment, specialist outpatient clinics & day programs, outreach consultation for case management and training for clinicians and teams around the state.
The Role of Medical leads
The NSW Statewide Committee of Eating Disorder Medical Leads is responsible for providing advice and leadership for all matters related to the medical management and transition of patients with eating disorders in NSW, in line with the Service Plan.
The Medical Leads committee ensures that pathways for medical treatment for people with eating disorders exist locally. If you have questions directly relating to medical admission and treatment of people with eating disorders in your district, please raise these with your local eating disorder coordinator to be forwarded to the Medical Leads committee