(1) - (2) On 14 September 2013, the Government launched the NSW Service Plan for People with Eating Disorders 2013-2018. Through this, the Government is committing over $15.2 million to enhance community-based and inpatient services to improve access to care for people suffering illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa, making eating disorders core business for local health districts.

Any member of the community requiring acute care will be accepted by the hospital. This includes eating disorder patients in medical crisis. Adults with eating disorders are admitted to both James Fletcher and John Hunter hospitals, as well as to Tamworth Base Hospital. Adults with eating disorders in the Newcastle region can also access services as outpatients in community health centres or at the Centre for Psychotherapy on the James Fletcher site.

As part of the new Service Plan, the Government has provided funding for a dedicated adult day program for people with eating disorders in the Hunter region, which will provide eight specialist clinical places for adults with eating disorders. Children and adolescents have access to a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, as well as services through John Hunter Children's Hospital. This includes eating disorders. Hunter New England has four child and adolescent specialist beds at John Hunter Hospital.

The local Eating Disorder Co-ordinator in Hunter New England in consultation with the NSW State-wide Eating Disorder Service Co-ordinator is working with providers like Calvary Mater Hospital to develop services which are of major relevance to eating disorder patients such as pathways between public and private services, and between acute and sub-acute care options.