Dietetics
The Dietetic Department aims to provide a comprehensive nutrition and dietetic service including advice on therapeutic diets, nutritional assessment and healthy eating. This service is provided Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm.
Registered dietitians are qualified health care professionals that assess, diagnose and treat dietary and nutritional problems at an individual and public health level. Uniquely dietitians use the most up to date public health and scientific research on food, health and disease which they translate into practical guidance to enable people to make appropriate lifestyle and food choices.
Dietitians are statutorily regulated with a protected title and governed by an ethical code to ensure they always work to the highest standards. The title dietitian can only be used by those appropriately trained professionals who have registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HPCP) and whose details are on the HCPC website.
The Dietetic Department Aims
- To provide a nutrition & dietetic service to outpatients and inpatients.
- Work in partnership with patients to maximise their nutritional care.
- Work across disciplines to support improvements to organisational nutritional care and training & education.
- Enable the delivery of the Board’s Integrated Nutritional Care Programme.
- Enable delivery of key targets such as HEAT 3 Child Healthy Weight, the Diabetes Action plan and Counterweight adult obesity programme and contribute to other relevant targets.
- Work within relevant policies procedures, guidelines and best practice statements to deliver a safe service.
- Continue to promote the Dietetic profession as an approved provider of clinical practice placements to student Dietitians.
We see patients in the wards, at clinics in the Health Centre and at home.
We give advice and support to individuals who:
- Require a special therapuetic diet
- Have food intolerances or food allergies
- Need a nutritionally adequate texture modified diet for dysphagia or other swallowing issues
- Need weight management advice
- Require nutritional support for poor appetite, weight loss etc
- Require alternative methods of feeding eg naso gastric feeding or percutaneous enteral nutrition (PEG)
- Require nutritional assessment
- Require dietary modification advice and support for diabetes
- Require advice and support for Gastrointestinal disorders such as crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticular disease, irritable bowel syndrome, coealiac disease - as well as many other nutritional issues that people need advice and support from a dietitian
Referrals
To refer complete a referral on SCI-gateway, which should include patient details, previous medical history, medication, diagnosis, height, weight, BMI and MUST score as well as any other relevant details.
Special Areas of Interest within Dietetic Department
- Inpatients and Outpatients
- General Nutrition and Dietetics
- Counterweight service ( Adult Obesity)
- Diabetes
- Scott programme (Childhood Obesity)
- Paediatrics
- Coeliac Disease and other Gut related conditions
- Nutrition Champion
- Enteral Feeding
- Oncology
Students
The Dietetic Department takes students throughout the year on placements.
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For more information:
01856 888219