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Inpatient dietitians

The Inpatient Nutrition and Dietetics Service is based at Stepping Hill Hospital. The Dietitians in the service work across the hospital wards and the outpatient clinic service. In both of these settings, Dietitians provide evidence based advice on food and nutrition. This is to support people to manage their medical conditions and to optimise their nutritional health while they are unwell. They can assess, diagnose and treat dietary and nutritional problems, as well as promoting health.

Expertise

All Dietitians are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
Dietitians can assess, diagnose and treat diet and nutrition problems for individuals
using the most up-to-date public health and scientific research on food, health and
disease. Dietitians translate this into practical guidance to enable people to make
appropriate lifestyle and food choices. Dietitians work alongside the other teams in the hospital and are also involved in the training and support of other healthcare professionals.

We provide a wide range of dietary treatments in many specialist areas. These
include:

  • Nutrition Support (for undernutrition/malnutrition)
  • Tube feeding advice and management- this may include nasogastric, PEG,
    gastrostomy, jejunostomy, naso-jejunal, RIG)
  • Parenteral (IV) feeding
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease/Ulcerative colitis)
  • Coeliac Disease
  • Digestive disorders
  • Type 1 Diabetes
  • Type 2 Diabetes
  • Liquid diets
  • Dietary advice for other medical conditions where required

How to use the service

You may be referred whilst an inpatient at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust to talk to a Dietitian in the Inpatient Nutrition and Dietetic Service. All inpatients are screened for malnutrition risk during their stay. You may be referred as it is identified you are at risk of malnutrition. The Healthcare professional who refers you should explain this to you and ask for your consent. There are other reasons why you may be referred to the Nutrition and Dietetic service as an inpatient. Doctors and Specialist Nurses can refer into the outpatient services. The team can also offer review appointments to people who have been seen by a Dietitian whilst an inpatient. This might be due to requiring further support with diet or nutrition on discharge from hospital.

Contact details

The team can be contacted Monday to Friday (8:00am to 4:30pm). There is an answerphone facility available.

The Dietitians are based in:
Nutrition and Dietetics
Inpatient Therapies
Stepping Hill Hospital

Telephone number:
0161 419 5087
Email:
[email protected]