Nutrition and Dietetics Hospital Services
Main Address
- Whittington Hospital
Magdala Avenue
London - N19 5NF
- 020 7288 5552
Nutrition plays a key role in both health promotion and in the treatment of illness. The department of clinical nutrition provides a service to both in and out patients offering advice on dietary intervention for the management of a wide range of clinical conditions.
The department provides help and advice to any patient referred to the dietetic clinic on discharge from the in-patient wards in the hospital. GP outpatient referrals are directed to a separate dietetic team based in the community. The dietitians work closely with the catering department in the provision of the patient meal service.
The department has 12 dietitians, two nutrition nurses, nutrition assistant and a nutrition administrator and also provides a training programme for up to six student dietitians per year as well as education and training to staff and patients being a key part of the service.
The department provides help and advice to any patient referred to the dietetic clinic on discharge from the in-patient wards in the hospital. GP outpatient referrals are directed to a separate dietetic team based in the community. The dietitians work closely with the catering department in the provision of the patient meal service.
The department has 12 dietitians, two nutrition nurses, nutrition assistant and a nutrition administrator and also provides a training programme for up to six student dietitians per year as well as education and training to staff and patients being a key part of the service.
We have specialist dieticians who work in specific fields such as:
- Paediatrics
- Neonates
- Diabetes
- Gastroenterology and nutrition support
- Care of older people
- Critical care
- Bariatrics
Our nutrition nurses provide advice on the monitoring and nursing management of adult inpatients receiving artificial nutrition support. They also respond to and advise the primary care health teams on any tube feeding problems in adult patients.
Monday to Friday
9am to 5pm
9am to 5pm
Locations See on a map
Patient Leaflet
- Build Yourself Up (Eating Well)
- Calcium
- Dumping syndrome
- Eating after a Nissen Fundoplication leaflet
- Fat and Protein Insulin Dosing using Multiple Daily Injections (MDI) and Insulin Pumps
- Five Nutritional Tips to Help Prevent Pressure Ulcers
- Folate
- Healthy eating for gestational diabetes
- Home Enterally Tube Fed (HETF) Patients attending Emergency (ED) or the Ambulatory Care Centre (ACC)
- How to choose from the hospital menu if you have diabetes
- Liver Cirrhosis and diet leaflet
- Low Fibre (Low Residue) Diet leaflet
- Low Potassium Dietary Advice
- Moving on from supplements
- Nasogastric (NG) Tube Feeding
- Oesophageal stent - dietary advice leaflet
- Protected meal times
- Simple exercises to support weight loss for older people
- Simple exercises to support weight loss for those below 65
- Snacks Options for Diabetes in Pregnancy
- Sources of Protein (NLOSS)
- St. Marks solution (Nutrition)
- Transition from a low fibre diet to a higher fibre diet
- Vitamin B12
Last updated01 Jul 2020