Community dietetians

Check your appointment letter for details of where you will see the community dietitian.

Our community dietitians work in the following healthcare locations:

• Brookside Clinic in Aylesbury
• Amersham Hospital
• Wycombe Hospital
• Buckingham Hospital

If necessary, you may request your appointment to be online or a home visit.

If you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment please contact us as soon as possible. We will need to know your name, NHS number and the details of the booked appointment you wish to reschedule from your letter.

Please call us on: 01296 831990

Home Enteral Feed Patients

Talkback – Learning Disability and Autism support 

Weight management for those with a learning disability

BDA Food Facts- IBS

NHS Patient Webinar

Please contact your GP for referral if your symptoms are not improving.

Diabetes information provided by Live well stay well Bucks

The Patient Association Nutrition Checklist

First food videos that demonstrate how to add extra calories and protein to your meals without adding any extra volume.

• How to prepare Fortified milk
• How to prepare fortified milkshake drink
• How to make fortified fruit juice drink

If you have any concerns about your feeding tube please contact us.

If your feeding tube should fall out, please follow the guidance below:

If your feeding tube is a:

1. PEG tube, for example, Freka 15 french:
   Attend A&E urgently.
2. Balloon gastrostomies/low profile devices, for example, mic-key buttons and Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomies (RIG):
   Contact your Abbott Nurse or District Nurse or GP (ie your local healthcare professional) for further advice.
   If you are unable to make contact with the health care professional, then please attend the A&E Department at your local hospital. Take your spare tube with you.
3. Jejunostomies:
   Attend A&E urgently

Information and resources to help with healthy eating and support weight loss.

Way Forward Bucks – information for patients

Websites and apps 

• Patient webinars Overview of Weight Management | patientwebinars.co.uk Recommended webinars on the dieting cycle, regular eating, triggers to eating, diet myths and balanced eating.
• Change4life  – Ideas, recipes and games for families to help them lose weight and be healthy. Also Change4life Food Scanner App to scan foods and see how many cubes of sugar or fat it contains.
• NHS website The NHS website – NHS (www.nhs.uk) Lose weight- 12 week diet and exercise plan and weight management information. Also NHS Weight Loss plan App that includes a 12 week plan.
• OneYou nhs.uk/oneyou – information on diet, drinking, sleep, stress and more.
• NHS Food scanner app NHS Food Scanner app – Healthier Families – NHS (www.nhs.uk) -allows you to scan the barcodes of food and drink to identify sugar and fat content and suggests healthier alternatives.
• Other on-line NHS endorsed weight management programmes Lose weight – Better Health – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Food and activity Trackers:

• Nutracheck App nutracheck.co.uk Allows you to record food intake and track exercise and can be used to follow a well balanced, lower carb, 5:2, higher protein, lower fat or lower sugar diet.
• Mynetdiary mynetdiary.com Log meals, exercise and weight. Bar code scanner.
• Drinkaware App drinkaware.co.uk Track and calculate units of alcohol drunk and calorie from alcohol.

Healthy Recipes ideas:

• Change4life nhs.uk/Change4Life  – Recipes and Meal Mixer app.
• One You EasyMeals / meal mixer App Eat Better | For Your Body | One You (www.nhs.uk) – Over 150 healthy meals with recipes and shopping lists to save for later.
• BBC Good Food bbcgoodfood.com

Physical Activity and Exercise:

• Leap with us- Home | Leap (leapwithus.org.uk) – Ideas and information on physical activities in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. Enter your postcode and sport/ activity you’d like to get involved in to find out what’s available.
• Active Bucks Active Bucks | Buckinghamshire Council– supporting people to get more active across Bucks. If you want to try something new and would like to get a little more active register on Active Bucks.  Get your first session free.
• Simply walk Simply walk | Buckinghamshire Council (buckscc.gov.uk)– A programme of walks for all ages and abilities across Buckinghamshire.
• Exercise on referral – Live Well Stay Well – Live Well Stay Well (livewellstaywellbucks.co.uk)  if exercise referral is for you, you will be put in contact with your local facility/leisure centre running a referral scheme who have specialist instructors trained to help advise on exercise.
• Cycle Bucks Route maps | Buckinghamshire Council (buckscc.gov.uk) Nine colour coded routes in Aylesbury
• Fitness blender fitnessblender.com Access free workout videos online
• NHS 10 minute workouts 10-minute workouts – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
• Couch to 5K App nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/couch-to-5k-week-by-week Move off the couch and run 5K in just 9 weeks. Grab your trainers and follow the step-by-step audio instructions. Free to download from the app store.
• Active 10 App Active 10 – Home (www.nhs.uk) NHS walking tracker

Reading material:

Help with emotional or non-hungry eating:

• The diet trap: Feed your psychological needs and end the weight loss struggle using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Jason Lillis
• Overcoming weight problems by Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert & Clare Grace
• The Weight Escape: How to stop dieting and start living by Ann Bailey and Russ Harris
• 50 ways to soothe yourself without food by Susan Albers

Tuning into appetite and mindful eating:

• How to Retrain your Appetite by Dr Helen McCarthy

Structured weight loss programmes:

• NHS website nhs.uk/LiveWell/Loseweight/Pages/Loseweighthome – A wealth of information on weight management and exercise plus a 12 week on line programme.
• Slimming world slimmingworld.co.uk free 10 weeks available on referral from your GP/ health professional.
• WW (Weight Watchers) weightwatchers.com/uk/ Customised weight loss programme.

Health Trainers:

• Live Well Stay Well Coach livewellstaywellbucks.co.uk  – access support for lifestyle change through speaking with a coach or accessing online digital tools.

Dietitian Appointments:

• Individual appointments with a Registered Dietitian– ask your GP for a referral.

Products:

• Healthy portion plate – helps with portion guidance
  www.healthyportionplate.comMatalan www.matalan.co.uk

Referrals to see a community dietitian must be submitted by a registered health care professional. GPs, primary care, community health and social care professionals can refer.

Self-referrals are not accepted.

Please complete the relevant referral form and email it to bht.communitydietitians@nhs.net

•  Community dietitians referral form
•  Care home dietitian referral form
•  Community enteral referral form

Further supporting information for care homes is available from Buckinghamshire Council on Teamnet Clarity

• Way Forward Bucks – information for healthcare professionals.
• Way Forward Bucks – referral form
• Way Forward Bucks – information for patients.

• Weight management for people with learning disabilities, British Dietetic Association (BDA)
• BDA discussion: Learning disabilities and healthy weight management  – watch on YouTube
• Obesity and weight management for people with learning disabilities: guidance available on GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
• MacMillan referral form