About our dietitian role
Dietitians are here to help patients with support, assess, diagnose and applying dietary and nutritional treatments. With their expert knowledge they are here to supply guidance with conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome or celiac disease for all ages. Our dietitians are also able to support you with food intolerances, helping patients with creating a plan with goal of achieving and maintain a healthy weight in their journey.
How can dietitians support patients?
- enable patients to self manage their conditions
- make ‘prevention’ possible in primary care
- manage prescribed medicines effectively and efficiently
- manage the prescribing of Nutritional Borderline Substances (NBS) products such as gluten free foods, oral nutritional supplements, enteral feeds and infant formulae
- reduce the need for expensive referrals to secondary care and the need for hospitalisation
- utilise technology effectively
- be part of the multidisciplinary primary care home team
Contact details
For any advice or enquiries about this role please contact your registered GP surgery for more information.