Dietitians Week 2014 Events in Focus
Thank you to all members who held events during Dietitians Week. Here are some ‘In Focus’, so you can see the types of events which were held all over the country.
Events in Wales
Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital, Cwmbran
Date of event: During Dietitians Week – Wednesday 11th June 2014
Venue: Caernarvon Villa, Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital, Cwmbran
Times: All day event
Theme: As part of Dietitians Week, raising the profile of Dietitians in line with the BDA Trust a Dietitian campaign through a whole service event. This will feature examples of past service improvement successes and will utilise the Health Board Quality Improvement team to roll out improvement methodologies across the service.
Invitees Chief executive of Aneurin Bevan university Health Board, Director of therapies and Health Sciences, Assistant Director of Therapies, All Dietetic Staff (Dietitians and support team)
University Hospital of Wales
Activity: Our department at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff are planning to have stands and posters promoting Dietetics for 3 days during Dietitians week. We will have Dietitians on the stands throughout each day at the hospital entrance and will also be providing advice on healthy eating and eating on a budget to the public.
Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor (North Wales)
Date: During Dieititians Week
Location: Main hospital reception, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor (North Wales)
Themes:
- What is a dietitian/Your local Dietetic team
- Why Trust a Dietitian
- Impact of Dietetics
- Mythbusters
Activities: From June 9th-13th, the Dietitians at Ysbyty Gwynedd will be promoting the work they do both acutely in the hospital and in the community. There will be the opportunity to “Ask a Dietitian” between 9.30-11.00am and 12.30-2.00pm each day with the exception of Thursday the 12th June. We will have a stand located just inside the main hospital entrance and this will have information on who we are and what we do, why Trust a Dietitian and the impact of dietetics which will include patient success stories. We will also have a display board with “Mythbusters” where we hope to tackle some of the common misconceptions dietitians come across. Food fact sheets and patient information leaflets will also be available.
Events in Northern Ireland
South Eastern Trust, Northern Ireland
Date Wednesday 11 June
Venue: Ulster Hospital
Activities. In South Eastern Trust we are planning to host a stand on Wednesday 11th June at the dining room in the Ulster Hospital. The aim of the stand is to showcase the role of dietitians across the Trust to raise the profile of our diverse role. Posters have been prepared and pictures gathered to demonstrate the benefits and outcomes of the work of dietitians
We have also secured the support of our Director of Nursing, Primary Care and Older People to enable us to present the outcomes of our Prevent, Anticipate and Avoid, and Treat (PAAT) model for management of malnutrition in care homes at our Trust Senior Staff Briefing in June.
Themes: This is an excellent opportunity for dietitians to demonstrate how we are being innovative, modernising, redesigning and making significant cost savings while improving quality of nutritional care.
Northern Trust – Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
Date of Event/s: 10th June, and throughout Dietitians Week
Venue/s: Regional launch on the 10th June (Stormont Parliamentary Reception organised and led by the BDA) – where stands from each HSC Trust will be in place. The intention is to have a number of posters on display, along with “testimonies” on the Trust a dietitian posters.
Overview of activities: Within our Trust we will be having 2 x stands available throughout the week within our 2 main acute hospital sites. A similar approach to that of the regional launch will be in place. We were hoping to ask patients & colleagues (internal and external) to write their comments on the “Trust a Dietitian” poster and then in some instances have a photograph of them holding their poster – which would then be displayed on our boards/stands.
We plan to have information on our Trust intranet and local radio and newspapers. I am also organising an awards opportunity for staff, and the achievements will be acknowledged and presented on the 9th June by our Public Health Agency AHP Lead consultant who has a professional link with Dietitians.
Invitees: We have written to some local sports people (Olympians) to ask if they would be willing to participate
Events in Scotland
Fife
Dates: May & June
Venue: Across Fife
Attendees 70 Elderly People
Theme We have focussed on the Trust A Dietitian campaign highlighting what a Dietitian does, how you can access our service in Fife and advice about eating healthily as you get older.
Events in England
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Date of Event: Each of the 5 days within DietitiansWeek (9-13th June)
Venue: Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust in the North East.
Theme: A stall on each day of this week at different locations around the hospital (public canteen, main corridor and the outpatient department). The stalls will be themed on ‘what is a dietitian’ ‘how can I a dietitian help you’ ‘what outstanding work have the dietitians done in the trust recently’ ‘what projects are going on in the dietetic department this year’ and also themed stalls with our paeds team, weight management team and promoting the work of a ‘food first’ document the band 5s have recently created for nursing home patients.
Medway Maritime Hospital
Date of event: During Dietitians Week
Venue: Medway Maritime Hospital – Nutrition & Dietetics – Disablement Services Centre
Theme: A joint team venture between acute, community and HEN dietitians. Raising awareness of dietetics in these settings. A large promotional display stall in the main entrance of our hospital, Medway Maritime. Use of interactive activities which include, use of a body composition machine, on the spot Q & A, and parading our ‘guyatitian’ ,plus lots more.
Horsley Critical Care Unit
Date of Event: During Dietitians week
Venue: Horsley Critical Care Unit, Liverpool
Theme: We are holding a ‘Dietitians Day’ to promote our neuroscience speciality at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust during the week.
University Hospital Birmingham
Date of Event: During Dietitians Week
Venue: University Hospital Birmingham
Theme: Public stands in the main entrance and restaurant of the hospital, a drop in/clinic check up drop in session and publishing items in our hospital newspaper and hopefully the Birmingham Mail. The stands will profile the variety of specialities the dietitians cover, the difference between a dietitian and nutritionist, profiling fad diets and also the qualifications and process of becoming a dietitians and the role of registered dietitians within that.
Activities:
Monday, 12-2 Plaza Restaurant.
Theme: Trust a Dietitian… what do we do?
Highlighting different diets, dietitians in the media. Different nutritional supplements, foods and equipment we use.
Wednesday, 10-3, Main Atrium
Theme: Trust a Dietitian… your questions answered by nutrition experts.
To have different equipment – scales, body fat analysis, hand grip, ht, tape measure to use one people and then give out general advice. Leaflets to give out, food models – sugar and fat content.
Friday 12-2 Plaza Restaurant.
Theme: Why Trust a Dietitian…?
Highlight the difference betweena Dietitian vs nutritionist vs celeb nutritionist. Myth busting. Top 5 fad diets. Education of dietitians.
We have also submitted an article for the hospital news paper to come out in June on Dietitians week, a diet case study and diet myths.
LYPFT Trust Headquarters, Leeds and Bootham Park Hospital, York.
Date: Friday 13th June, then Throughout Dietitians Week and the rest of June
Venue: St Mary’s Hospital Leeds
Theme: As Dietitian’s across the Trust we are putting on Trust a Dietitian displays including tailored areas of Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Eating Disorders and Forensics. These displays will be in each area for at least a week if not a month.
We are in the process of arranging information to be posted on the Trust intranet, screen saver, AHP newsletter and the Trust blog.
On the week of Trust a Dietitian we will be putting on two events at LYPFT Trust Headquarters, Leeds and Bootham Park Hospital, York. The events will be stands with information and goodies to give away. These events will be on Friday 13th June.
Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, Worcestershire
Date: Throughout Dietitians Week (9th – 13th June 2014)
Venue: Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, Worcestershire
Theme: We are displaying a large stand in the main corridor of the hospital throughout dietitians week, promoting the role of the dietitian in the acute and out-patient setting, the difference between a dietitian and nutritionist, training to become a dietitian and a quiz and questionnaire. We are also holding an online Q & A session and promoting the week across our Trust via our online ‘Daily Team Brief Newsletter’ and hopefully our local newspaper.
Bupa Cromwell Hospital, London
Activity: For Dietitians Week we are linking with our fellow Bupa Dietitians from Salford Quays and raising the profile of Dietitians within our Hospital by having a table in our Canteen with Healthy Eating leaflets (height/weight measurements) and giving the staff an opportunity to ask questions about the work we do and any concerns of their own they might have.
Theme: The difference and benefit of using a Dietitian as opposed to a Nutritional Therapist
Venue: Bupa Cromwell Hospital,
University Hospital Leicester
Activity: Drop in sessions in the canteens/foyers of all three of our hospital sites, which we hope to highlight our presence and the worthwhile contribution we make to acute care across the hospital.
Theme: A team ‘high tea’, as I think ensuring a motivated, cohesive team is key to ensuring we present an inspiring and positive message to students we train, as well as all of our health professionals we work alongside.
Cheshire
North Devon District Hospital
Date: Throughout Dietitians Week (9th – 13th June 2014)
Venue: North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, Devon.
Theme: We are displaying a stand in the hospital restaurant during the week to promote our role and why the public should ‘Trust a Dietitian’. We will be encouraging the public and staff to get interactive with our body composition analysis, body mass index calculator and 5-a-day quiz. Our MSc sport and exercise dietitian will also be available to answer any questions.
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Activity: For the event, we are planning to set up a display stall in the main reception of our hospital, with the central focus surrounding the Eatwell Plate. We have asked various members of the multidisciplinary team to take part by completing some food diaries which we, the Dietitians, will analyse prior to the event.
We will display the food diaries of the staff members (identifiable only in Designation, not names!) and pie charts indicating their nutritional intake, to correspond with the colours of the Eatwell Plate. We will invite passers by (staff, patients and family) to come and discuss how the real diets they see the staff eating compare to the Eatwell plate, and what healthy changes they could make, how they could achieve this practically etc. We hope this will get people thinking and talking about healthy eating, and realistic healthy changes.
Audiences: Consultants, Junior Doctors, Physios, HCAs, Nurses, Locality Manager and Dietitians too.
Theme: Raising the profile of the profession and also to promote healthy eating and healthy lifestyle.
East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Date: During Dietitians Week
Activity: Renal dietetics employed by East Kent Hospitals University NHS FT are celebrating Dietitians Week with a display in renal outpatients at Kent & Canterbury Hospital, focusing on reducing dietary salt.
Theme: Reducing Dietary Salt.
