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Caroline is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with over 25 years’ experience working with children, adolescents and adults across inpatient and outpatient settings within NSW Health. She is deeply committed to enabling change within the public health system to ensure consistent, high‑quality, evidence‑based care for people with eating disorders.
Caroline works at InsideOut Institute as the Statewide Service Development and Policy Implementation Lead for Eating Disorders in NSW. In this role, she works alongside the Ministry of Health and Local Health Districts to support the implementation of the NSW Health Service Plan for the care of people with eating disorders.
She is passionate about ensuring people with eating disorders and their families can access high‑quality, evidence‑based care close to home, and is dedicated to supporting health professionals to build their skills and knowledge to improve patient care and recovery.
Across NSW, services report an increase in people presenting with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), however, clinicians lacked access to evidence-based training to support them. To address this gap, an eLearning program, ARFID Fundamentals, was developed to provide clinicians with guidance on scope of practice across various healthcare settings. Co-produced with lived experience input, evidence informed and drawing on local and international expertise, the training helps clinicians understand ARFID, while differentiating from other feeding and eating disorders to enable a comprehensive assessment, and deliver multidisciplinary, person-centred care.
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The NSW Service Plan sets out a major five‑year effort to strengthen eating‑disorder care across the health system, improving access, quality, and outcomes through better services, pathways, and workforce capability. This research evaluates how well service plan training boosts knowledge and confidence so programs can keep improving and inform government and sector-wide planning.
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