Dietetics

Comprehensive Nutrition and Dietetic advice and support for long term conditions. Specialist advice for nutritional support, diabetes, gastroenterology and others. Home enteral feeding service for community patients.

• Specialist service for patients on enteral feeding at home or in Care Homes.
• Cover for community in-patient wards at St Margaret’s and Saffron Walden Hospitals.
• Training for health service staff/Care Home staff.
• Medicines management role for oral nutritional support.
• Community Gastroenterology Dietitian clinics are held in Epping Forest, Harlow and Uttlesford.
• GP practice dietitians hold clinics within GP surgeries in West Essex at set times.
• Housebound patients and those in nursing and residential homes are seen by the community dietetic team in their home environment.
• Specialist Mental Health service.
• Dietetic support for pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation programmes
• Type 2 Diabetes education groups (X-PERT and X-PERT Insulin) are held at various venues across West Essex. Visit https://eput.nhs.uk/patient-carer-and-visitor/managing-diabetes/ for more information about the X-PERT course. Contact the X-Pert and X-Pert Insulin groups be telephone, 01992938450.

Hours of operation

Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00 
Clinics held at various times depending on location
Some X-PERT Diabetes groups. Evening sessions available.

Please ask for a referral from your GP or Health Care Professional