Eating Disorder Management
Physician lead: Dr. Shirley Sze
Timeline: Active (Ending Fall 2025)
Funder: Shared Care Committee
Project leads:
Dr. Shirley Sze
Timeline:
Active (Ending Fall 2025)
Funder:
Shared Care Committee
The project seeks to ensure that primary care providers and specialists feel comfortable in early identification, assessment and management of patients presenting with eating disorders. By increasing public awareness of eating disorders and learning from a new provincial eating disorder clinical care pathway, our hope for this project is that we build capacity to manage eating disorders to ensure patients and families feel supported, and capacity is maintained through the local Eating Disorder Clinic in Kamloops.
Key Deliverables:
Primary Care Provider (FP and NP) Education:
Enhance the knowledge and skills of primary care providers around prevention, early diagnosis and management of eating disorders, and create more awareness of local, regional and provincial resources. Implementation of educational interventions seeks to increase local capacity to manage and treat ED, improve timeliness, and appropriateness of referrals to specialists.
Public Education:
Enhance awareness and knowledge of healthy eating and eating disorders amongst the general public and important stakeholders to prevent eating disorders, and increase the number of patients presenting earlier for assessment and intervention.
Engagement with Indigenous partners:
Engage with Indigenous partners to understand culturally sensitive approaches to the management of eating disorders so that the medical community could partner in its the management, and improve patient outcomes.
Eating Disorder provider education:
Support specialists and primary care providers with a focused practice in this area to engage in opportunities to upskill to continue to build local capacity and contribute to retention.
Key Outcomes:
- Improved patient care and health outcomes
- Improved patient ability to self-manage care
- Improvements in GP access to specialist consultations
- Improvements in appropriateness of FP referrals to specialist physicians
For more information on Eating Disorder Management, contact:
Melanie Todd
Senior Project Manager
