Young people with eating disorders, such as anorexia, will no longer have to travel from the upper North Island to Australia to get treatment.
A new eating disorders service funded by the Auckland District Health Board launches today to provide residential and day programme treatment for 15 to 24-year-olds.
The Challenge Trust, which is running the service, says about one percent of New Zealanders suffer from eating disorders.
The centre will start taking in-patients next month.
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