Impact of Nutrition and Dietetic Service
This section of the Know Your Worth toolkit provides an overview of the Impact of the Dietetic Profession, including some key messages that can be shared with those buying Nutrition and Dietetic services directly, or services that may involve the need for Nutrition and Dietetic services.
These messages are designed to help Nutrition and Dietetic services market their services and describe the impact they have across different clinical specialities and patient groups.
Impact of Dietetics:
- Food service, food provision and food quality
- Improving Health and Wellbeing by tackling Malnutrition
- Nutritional Screening, assessment and treatment
- Enteral Feeding
- Parenteral Nutrition
- Home Enteral Tube Feeding (HETF)
- Oral Nutrition Supplements
- Reduction in length of stay in stroke patients
- Fractured Neck of Femur (NOF) patients
- The impact of dietitians on better health outcomes for those with Musculoskeletal conditions
- Dietitians supporting and improving the health and wellbeing of patients with long term conditions
- Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Care
- Pre-Conceptual Care and Pregnancy
- Infants, Pre-School, and School aged Children
- The Impact of Dietetics in Public Health
- The Effectiveness of Education and Training by Dietitians
