The Dietetics Department offers inpatient food services and outpatient diet counseling services. We strive to ensure the dietary and nutritional needs of our patients are met at all times, and to the highest possible standards.
Our dieticians work as part of a professional team of specialists who work closely with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure the best care possible is provided to our patients. The department has received numerous dietetic awards, both from educational establishments and healthcare settings.
The therapeutic services we offer include:
- Nutrition care and education for inpatients and outpatients - patients identified as being at nutritional risk or requiring dietary modifications and education
- Screening and referral process which identifies patients at nutritional risk, led by qualified dietetics professionals to ensure safe, effective and high-quality nutritional care
As part of our dietetic services, we also supervise the quality and the quantity of foods/enteral feeds issued to inpatients, in accordance with physician guidance. The nutritional care and services we offer patients encompasses children, adolescents, adults and geriatric age groups. A wide range of complex cases are referred on to our department, including outpatients with chronic conditions, and inpatients with chronic conditions and acute episodes or who are critically ill.
