A dietitian is a healthcare professional who provides expert advice on nutrition to support overall health and manage medical conditions. They assess individuals’ dietary needs, create personalized meal plans, and offer guidance on healthy eating.

The role of a dietitian involves:

1. Assessing Nutritional Needs: Dietitians evaluate a person’s dietary habits, health status, and medical history to determine their specific nutritional needs. This may involve working with individuals to manage conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or digestive issues.
2. Developing Personalized Diet Plans: Based on assessments, dietitians create individualized meal plans that promote health and manage or prevent chronic conditions. These plans are tailored to each person’s specific needs, preferences, and lifestyle.
3. Managing Medical Conditions: Dietitians play an important role in managing various medical conditions through nutrition, including obesity, high blood pressure, food allergies, celiac disease, and malnutrition. They collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive care.
4. Providing Education: Dietitians educate individuals and groups about healthy eating habits, portion control, food labels, and the nutritional value of different foods. They aim to empower people to make sustainable, healthy food choices.
5. Monitoring Progress: Dietitians track the progress of individuals on specific diets, adjusting recommendations as needed to ensure optimal health outcomes.
6. Counseling and Support: They offer counseling to help people cope with emotional eating, disordered eating behaviors, and making long-term changes to their diets for improved health.
7. Research and Development: Dietitians may also be involved in research, contributing to the development of new dietary guidelines or therapeutic diets for specific health conditions.

We offer tailored dietetic support through in-practice appointments and telephone consultation’s, with our Dietician, Aveno.

Nutritional assessments — A comprehensive review of your diet, weight, medical history, and lifestyle.
Support for long-term conditions — Dietary advice for managing diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or digestive disorders.
Weight management guidance — Structured plans for healthy weight loss or weight gain based on your individual goals.
Specialist diet advice — Help with coeliac disease, food intolerances, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and other clinical dietary needs.
Education and meal planning — Practical support including food choices, portion sizes, and meal planning tools.

Your appointment with the dietitian is designed to provide personalized, realistic advice to help you meet your health goals:

Initial assessment — A detailed discussion about your current eating habits, medical conditions, lifestyle, and any symptoms you experience.
Nutritional goal setting — Collaborative planning of achievable dietary goals tailored to your health needs.
Meal and lifestyle advice — Practical suggestions on how to adapt your diet and daily routine to improve health outcomes.
Resources and support — You may receive food diaries, leaflets, or referrals to group programmed for additional help.

Follow-up appointments may be arranged to review your progress, address challenges, and adjust your nutrition plan if needed. We also coordinate with your GP or nurse to monitor how dietary changes are supporting your overall health.

Please ensure you are a registered patient with us, before booking your appointment.

To schedule your consultation, please contact us on 020 3818 8441.