The North East Metro Eating Disorders Taskforce developed a Care Pathway, Care Planning And Care Coordination resource for use by all health professionals and services within the North East metropolitan area.

The Program Management Circular (PMC): ‘Clinical mental health service responses for people with eating disorders in Victoria’ (MHB, 2007), described and guided the role of public specialist mental health services in responding to the needs of Victorians of all ages experiencing an eating disorder. Mental health services now have a clear responsibility to address the needs of individuals with an eating disorder, and their families. Policies and procedures; and clinical practice will need to be developed to enable this service provision. The PMC stated that AMHS should identify key contact clinicians within each AMHS region to coordinate an appropriate mental health service response for eating disorders in conjunction with the authorised psychiatrist; as well as support clinical staff from all program areas (Adult and CAMHS). They will be known as Eating Disorder Coordinators (EDC).

Operation EAT (Early Action and Treatment) is a model of intervening early in eating disorders for a community. It is an approach targeting disordered eating, emerging eating disorders, and early-in-illness treatment to tackle these challenging and debilitating conditions and prevent long term morbidity and mortality. It uses multiple primary care settings, health practitioners, families and the wider community to provide integrated, coherent responses to the issue. It is suitable for primary health networks, area mental health services, local government areas and any other catchment based health promotion service.