Dietetics

Our team of specialist dietitians assess and treat you for any problems that you might have relating to your diet or nutrition.

Location: Central Middlesex, Ealing, Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals
Division: Integrated clinical services

Our team of specialist dietitians assess and treat you for any problems that you might have relating to your diet or nutrition. They provide:

• nutritional assessments
• evidence-based changes to your diet in hospital
• tailored advice for you, your family or your carers
• training for you on nutritional issues, as well as offering training for other healthcare professionals.

We're proud to be part of a diverse community, and our dietitians have extensive knowledge and experience of diets and foods from a wide range of cultures.

Our dietitians aim to ensure that you stay well nourished and hydrated throughout your stay in hospital, so that you can recover more quickly. To help us do this, you'll find that our teams record your nutrition and hydration in your clinical notes.

Our dietitians provide wide range of services at all our hospitals.

At Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospital

We work closely with our Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU), including providing:

• enteral and parental nutrition
• services for people with head and neck cancer
• services for people who have had maxillofacial surgery.

We provide services for people with diabetes, including caring for you if you:

• have Type 1 diabetes
• have Type 2 diabetes
• have gestational diabetes
• need advanced pump therapy
• need support with carbohydrate counting
• need structured diabetes education sessions.

We also work closely with:

• our teams in the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) and Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU) to care for you if you have had a stroke.
• oue Collaborative Care Team, to make sure that you get the care you need when you leave hopsital to go home.
• palliative care, whether you are staying with us in hospital or visiting us for the day. We can also visit you at home if you need.
• mental health teams
• gastrointestinal teams, particularly if you have coeliac disease or inflammatory bowel disease  
• our surgical teams
• our respiratory teams
• our neurology  
• our paediatrics teams, whether your child is staying with us in hospital or is visiting us as an outpatient
• our elderly care teams.

We work closely with our catering teams to ensure that you receive meals that keep you well nourished and will help you recover.

At St Mark's Hospital

Our dietitians provide the same services at St Mark's Hospital, but also help to:

• treat you if you have complex intestinal failure, and need specialised enteral and parenteral nutrition
• research the nutritional and immune function of people having home parenteral nutrition.

Ealing Hospital 

Our team of dietitians at Ealing Hospital are part of our larger community team. We provide care for both adults and children in hospital, both if you are staying with us or visiting us as outpatietns. We also provide advice and training.

Services on our wards include:

• screening and assessing you if we're concerned you might be at risk of malnutrition (for example, if  you have a problem with swallowing)
• looking after you if you are on our Intensive Care Unit, including our High Dependency Unit (HDU)
• looking after babies who are experiencing severe failure to thrive, as well as babies on our Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) who need supplementation   
• prescribing enteral feeding and working closely with our nursing colleagues to set up discharge feed packages
• providing assessments and advice on prescriptions for you if you are on parenteral nutrition
• looking after you if you have a gastrointestinal tract disorder, or a liver or renal condition which means that you need nutritional support. This might include continuing to prescribe you food supplements once you have been discharged from hospital.
• caring for you if you have diabetes and need nutritional support or advice  while you are on one of our wards
• caring for you if you have food allergies or intolerances.

If you are visiting us as an outpatient, we care for you if you:

• have a renal condition and are about to have replacement therapy
• have diabetes (including gestational diabetes, or if you have diabetes and are pregnant)
• have food allergies or intolerances
• are not always well nourished because of a condition such as Irritable Bowel Disease (this is known as impaired nutritional status due to disease related malnutrition)

We also look after children who are having difficulties weaning.

Contact our dietetics service:

• at Central Middlesex Hospital: 020 8453 2580
• at Ealing Hospital: 020 8967 5321
• at Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals: 020  8869 2666