I have completed the Diploma in Advanced Dietetic Practice (1999) and post registration training in dietetics and mental health (1994)

I have 30 years experience working as a specialist dietitian. Until November 2008 I worked in the NHS encouraging improved nutrition and food choices in a range of setting:

• Individual person centred consultation

• Group work

• Identifying and planning realistic nutritional change

• Project work  involving multi-agency working with the local authority, the independent and voluntary sectors

• Delivering training to a wide variety of audiences

• Practical groups for improving cooking skills  to promote nutritional intake

Since 2006 I have been working as a freelance dietitian and have significant experience working with:

• Older people and their carers

• People with mental health problems or learning disabilities

• Nursing and residential care  homes

• Prader Willi syndrome

• Catering and teaching staff, governors and  pupils in school settings

• Healthy lifestyle groups

• Nutrition and dietary counselling