Nutrition and Dietetics
(food and diet support)
We help you manage a healthy diet during your stay. We work with other services across the hospital to make sure your eating plan matches your health care needs.
Our services
The Nutrition and Dietetic Service provides:
- Nutritional screening, assessments and intervention for a variety of conditions
- Nutritional supplements and tube feeding
- Home Enteral Nutrition Service
- Nutrition and health promotion activities for patients, visitors and hospital staff.
Hospital meals
We ensure that our hospital menu is tasty and caters to the complex clinical needs of our patients. Members of our food service staff take menu orders to make sure each patient gets the food they need. Find out more about meals when in hospital.
How to access this service
You can only access this service when you are staying in hospital. No external referrals are accepted for this service. If you are not an inpatient and would like to access dietetic services, please speak with your GP. Patients needing individual weight loss advice should seek weight loss services in the community or call 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84) a confidential service that provides health advice.