Our Services

Nutrition and Dietetic Department

The integrated Nutrition and Dietetic Service operates across Central and Eastern Cheshire. The central team is based at Mid Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust and the Eastern team is based at Macclesfield District General Hospital. The Dietetic Service is diverse, providing input across all clinical specialities and settings including, inpatients and outpatients, General Practice surgeries and residential nursing homes.

Our departmental objectives

Our departmental objectives are:

To provide specialist inpatient care and outpatient clinics to provide therapeutic dietary advice as an integral part of disease management.
To maximise nutritional wellbeing in hospital to facilitate reduction in length of hospital stay and prevention of readmission.
To advice and support appropriate cost effective prescribing of nutritional products across acute and community settings.
To assess and offer advice and ongoing support and equipment to adults and children who are tube fed.
To provide a range of training programmes to medical and nursing staff.

Our services

What we offer to our staff

Opportunities to work in a multi-professional team across a range of settings.
Continual professional development, competency based training and department clinical guidelines to support evidence based practice.

The benefits of our service

Help promote nutritional well-being, treat disease and prevent nutrition related problems.
Provide patient specific advice, which is practical, safe and based on current scientific evidence.
Hospital avoidance
Safe and timely discharge of patients.

The benefits of a Dietitian

Dietitians are highly specialised practitioners who:

are an expert source of current nutrition information.
help promote nutritional well-being, treat disease and prevent nutrition related problems.
hold a recognised graduate qualification in nutrition and dietetics.
are Registered with the Health professions Council (HPC).
provide patient specific advice, which is practical, safe and based on current scientific evidence.
respect the needs of the individual.

Where you can see a Dietitian

Dependant on referral reason and personal preference you will be seen by the dietitian in one of the following locations:

Inpatients and outpatients at:

Leighton Hospital,Crewe
Macclesfield District General Hospital

Outpatients/visits at:

Victoria Infirmary, Northwich
Your GP practice surgery
Nursing or residential home

The services we provide

ward based nutritional advice
home enteral feeding and sip feed
diabetes
weight management
gastroenterology and Irritable Bowel syndrome
HIV
Paediatrics
Cardiac rehabilitation

Opening times

Monday - Friday: 09:00 – 17:00

Our team

The Nutrition and Dietetic Team provides individualised dietetic intervention to a wide ranging client group. The dietetic teams are:

Hospital Team

Hospital dietitians provide specialist dietary advice to help patients to manage their medical condition and maintain nutritional status while in hospital and to promote recovery. Dietitians work closely with multi disciplinary teams such as paediatrics, diabetes, critical care, gastroenterology, stroke and oncology, including specialist outpatient clinics.

GP Practice Team

GP Dietitians provide an outpatient service for patients to attend in their GP practice. Within these clinics the dietitian provides advice on therapeutic diets for disease management.

Home Enteral Feeding Team

This team provides oral nutrition support and tube feeding advice to patients in residential, nursing homes and their own homes.

Weight Management Team

The weight management team provides both hospital and community based clinics to assist patients in achieving weight reduction and weight maintenance, prior to bariatric surgery.

FAQs

Q. How can I be referred to a dietitian?

A. Individuals can access the services of a dietitian through their GP or hospital consultant. The doctor will complete a referral form or letter providing relevant medical information. This helps the dietitian to complete a detailed dietary assessment and provide appropriate dietary advice.

Q. What to expect and bring to first appointment

The initial appointment with the dietitian will last approximately 30 minutes. During this appointment the dietitian will take a thorough diet history and ask questions regarding any past medical history and current medication. This will enable the dietitian to provide appropriate dietary advice. To assist the dietitian, we ask that all patients bring an up to date record of their current prescribed medications and any relevant medical information.

Follow up:

If a follow up is required an appointment will be made for approximately 15 minutes.

Q. What if I cannot make my appointment?

A. If the appointment time is inconvenient or you are unable to make the appointment date, please contact us as soon as possible and we will rearrange this for you.

How to contact us

Name	Title	Telephone number	Email
Toby Edwards	Dietetic and Wellbeing Manager	01270 376535	Toby.edwards@nhs.net
Jacqui Stocker	Community Team Leader	01270 273598	jacqui.stocker@mcht.nhs.uk
Georgina Timson	Acute Team Leader Macclesfield District General Hospital	01625 661569	georgina.timson@nhs.net