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Connecting the dots in eating disorder care
The TrEAT Registry brings together people, services and information to help improve eating disorder treatment across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
By collecting information about treatment and outcomes in everyday clinical care, TrEAT helps us better understand what is working, where improvements are needed and how services can provide more effective and responsive care.
Our goal is simple: to support better treatment, stronger services and improved outcomes for people affected by eating disorders.
What is the TrEAT Registry?
TrEAT is the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Quality Registry for the Treatment of Eating Disorders.
It works with eating disorder services to collect and understand information about the care people receive and the outcomes they experience.
This information helps clinicians and services monitor progress, evaluate treatment and identify opportunities to improve care.
TrEAT also supports research by creating a clearer picture of how eating disorder treatment is delivered across different services, settings and communities.
What is a clinical quality registry?
A clinical quality registry is a secure system that collects information about healthcare and treatment outcomes over time.
Unlike a one-off study, a registry gathers information as part of everyday clinical care. This allows us to understand what happens in real treatment settings, across different services and for a broad range of people.
The information collected can then be analysed and returned to clinicians and services as useful feedback.
This creates a continuous cycle of improvement:
The purpose is not simply to collect data. It is to turn that information into knowledge that can support meaningful change.
Why is TrEAT important?
Eating disorder treatment is delivered across many different settings, including outpatient clinics, day programs, residential services and hospitals.
Services often collect information about their clients and programs, but this information may be collected in different ways or remain within individual organisations. This makes it difficult to understand treatment and outcomes across the wider health system.
TrEAT helps bring this information together in a more consistent and meaningful way.
Over time, this can help answer important questions such as:
- Are people improving during treatment?
- Which parts of treatment appear to be most helpful?
- Where are there gaps or differences in care?
- Are services meeting the needs of the people they support?
- How can treatment be improved in the future?
The more services that participate, the clearer and more representative this picture becomes.
How does TrEAT work?
Who benefits from TrEAT?
The role of lived experience
People with lived and living experience bring knowledge that cannot be gained from clinical information alone.
Their perspectives help TrEAT understand which outcomes matter, what meaningful improvement looks like and how information should be collected and communicated.
Lived experience involvement helps ensure that TrEAT remains connected to the priorities of the people it is intended to serve.
What TrEAT does not do
TrEAT is not a treatment service and does not provide individual medical or psychological advice.
It does not replace clinical judgement, prescribe a particular treatment or make decisions about a person’s care.
Registry information is one source of knowledge. It should always be considered alongside lived experience, clinical expertise and each person’s individual circumstances.
Building a stronger future for eating disorder care
No single person, clinic or research project can answer every question about eating disorder treatment.
TrEAT creates a way for people and services to contribute to a shared understanding of care across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
By connecting data, lived experience, clinical knowledge and research, TrEAT is helping build a health system that can keep learning and improving.
Together, we can strengthen the evidence behind treatment and help more people receive care that supports their recovery.