Here contains support and guidance for colleagues in primary care who are managing patients with Eating Disorders.
This Guidance applies to Eating Disorder Services in which a Consultant Psychiatrist, or other medic, actively works. For teams without such input, local agreement must be reached between Primary Care and the Eating Disorder Service.
Summary of the Eating Disorder Service Medical Monitoring Pathway:
This website is split into sections:
- Useful contact details
- Medical monitoring team
- Medical monitoring algorithm
- Why do we medically monitor patients?
- What is medical monitoring and what does it involve?
- When should patients be medically monitored?
- What to do when blood results are abnormal?
- Eating Disorder service medical monitoring blood reference ranges traffic light system
- What to do when physical observations are abnormal?
- How do patients access medical monitoring?
- Bone density scans
- ECGs
- Proposed flowchart for medical monitoring