This important document will build on, and align to, existing key documents including: the National Eating Disorders Strategy (2023-2033), Australian Eating Disorders Research & Translation Strategy (2021-2031) as well as other key commonwealth strategic documents. The Blueprint is intended to support decision-making around eating disorder service development and system transformation to ensure a high-quality service system for people with eating disorders and their families. Being developed in consultation with key national stakeholders across Eating Disorder service delivery, and government health jurisdictions, the document will clearly lay out nationally agreed components of what constitutes an ideal evidence-based system for the treatment of people with eating disorders and the costs and benefits of best practice implementation. This information will help service providers and policy makers in planning and service development.
A description of the full research-translation pipeline
Cost-benefit analysis of six evidence-based priority ED interventions (see below), developed in national consultation - to demonstrate the cost of implementing priority evidence-based interventions, and the opportunity cost of not implementing them.
Illustrative case-studies on the interventions, and pathways to their implementation, including adaptations that could be made by different jurisdictions and settings (such as state to state, urban to regional) to match local need
By clearly outlining these best-practice interventions, their cost–benefit value, and practical pathways for implementation and adaptation, services and governments will be provided with a document that supports targeted, high-impact investment and service delivery. This shared direction will support the differences across national jurisdictions to plan and tailor their eating disorder service roadmaps, ultimately improve the quality, timeliness and outcomes of treatment for people experiencing eating disorders nationwide.