Create a Quality Improvement Project for Your Practice

Improvement activities for managing eating disorders in your practice

1. Improve confidence and knowledge in managing people with eating disorders

Upskill management and admin staff and clarify pathways and requirements by working through this toolkit, accessing all information and implementing useful suggestions.

Access clinical training through the link below for your GPs, Practice Nurses, Exercise physiologists and allied health practitioners. Create a whole practice approach to better identification and management of eating disorders

Use this toolkit to import custom templates/referral letters/screeners, customise your software, grow your referral pathways and update your processes.

This will involve time commitment from all staff, practice managers and admin, practice nurses and GPs. Once done this will assist the practice indefinitely.

Follow this link to whole suite of training for all your staff, including GPs, at InsideOut. Also, check out the GP-specific training from NEDC at this link.

2. Improve screening and identification of people with eating disorders

Use this toolkit to identify a way your practice can flag and record a file in your patient management software after screening. Create a strategy for routine screening by GPs & Practice Nurses that can be evaluated.

Use your software reports to generate data on screening and recognise any comparative activity.

3. Improve recording of eating disorder diagnoses

Use this toolkit to update the recording and records of patients living with an ED. Improve recording of ED diagnoses in general. Create a strategy for updating of generalised diagnoses to specific ED diagnoses.

Use your software reports to generate data on those with ED diagnosis recorded and recognise any comparative activity.

You could use each of these activities in turn over different reporting periods to achieve a very comprehensive quality improvement result, or alternately you could choose one of these activities to focus your approach on improvement in one specific area.