A Dietitian assesses dietary intake and provides nutrition advice to help people understand the impact of diet on their health and well-being. They provide support to help people increase their understanding of nutrition and hydration and feel confident with food choices helping them to live longer and healthier lives.

A Dietitian helps people to become more involved in food choices, helping a person to choose foods that are right for them and assisting them to understand how food choices affect their health. A Dietitian will support a person to eat and drink safely and teach carers how to support a person’s food and drink needs. They also provide advice on the management of some health conditions with specialist diets, manage and monitor a person’s weight and make decisions about feeding tubes if these are needed.

You might get support from a Dietitian if:

• You have recently lost lots of weight or gained weight.
• You need help to make food and drink choices so that you have a healthy and balanced diet.
• You have started to experience constipation or diarrhoea and need help to find out if this is related to the foods that you are eating.