Barking and Dagenham Nutrition and dietetic service

The team consists of HCPC Registered Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants. The service delivers one-to-one care in a variety of ways. These include virtual clinics (telephone or video), face to face clinic appointments and group education subject to inclusion criteria. The service aims to improves the overall health of individuals needing special diets as part of medical treatment. Dietitians translate scientific information about food into practical dietary advice across the lifespan.

Services provided include

  • Assessment and management for dietetic related conditions for both adult and children that meet the service criteria
  • Group Education Sessions for:
    — Weight reducing patients (Tier 2 weight management service only)
    — Pulmonary rehab sessions
    — Lipid lowering sessions
  • Structured group education for patients with diabetes:
    — Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE): This programme aims to help adults with type 1 diabetes.
    — Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed  (DESMOND): This programme aims to help adults with type 2 diabetes
  • Appointments can be delivered at various clinical sites, nursing homes and home visits are available for house bound patients
  • MUST training for health professionals

Service Exclusions

  • Parenteral feeding
  • Oncology patients undergoing treatment.
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Palliative patients who are < 3 months from end of life.
  • Tier 3 & tier 4 weight management
  • Malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) score < 2 (NB, MUST score >2 with following conditions will be accepted: pressure injury, texture modified diet as seen by SLT, COPD)
  • Renal and liver disorders under specialist services
  • Eating disorders including ARFID
  • Paediatric diabetes
  • Paediatric immediate IgE allergies and multiple allergies

Patient information

To contact the service

Service Email: bddietitians@nelft.nhs.uk

Tel: 0300 300 1769 (Answerphone service during out of office hours)

Nutrition and Dietetic Service
Porters Avenue Health Centre
234 Porters Avenue
Dagenham
RM8 2EQ

Opening times: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm

Referrals

Referrals will be accepted by email from consultants, GP practices and health care professionals (band 5 and above). Referrals are accepted for patients with a Barking & Dagenham GP.

GP Referrals (EMIS Practices)

If you are a GP using EMIS, please submit all new routine referrals to this service via Elemental. This is now the standard referral route into NELFT for EMIS practices and replaces the previous email-based process.

Urgent referrals: If you need to make an urgent referral, please continue to use the existing urgent referral pathways and contact the service directly where required. Elemental should not be used for urgent referrals.

This change applies to GP practices using EMIS. Alternative referral routes remain available for practices using other clinical systems

Please refer to the For Clinicians page for more information.