What’s New
NewViaual Book to help with Diabetes Patients
Chris Cheyette (Dietitian) and Yello Balolia (Photographic Artist) have produced a comprehensive visual guide to carbohydrate and calorie counting for people with diabetes. The book was released on 29th March 2010 and contains over 1200 food and drink pictures with carbohydrate and calorie values. Go to www.carbsandcals.com order your copy for £12.99 (free UK postage). An exciting new iPhone App, teaching packs, flash cards and posters will all be available soon. Discounts for larger orders are also available.
DOM UK comments for the NICE Public Health Guidance for Weight Management in Pregnancy and after childbirth
Please find attached comments from DOM UK for the NICE Public Health Guidance for Weight Management in Pregnancy and after childbirth - Click on the link to view WMPAC DOMUK comments
SIGN 115 Adult and Childhood Obesity Guidelines
The new revised SIGN 115 adult and childhood obesity guidelines have been published. Please visit the guidelines on www.sign.ac.uk. for more details.
An open meeting will be held in West Park, Dundee on implementation of these guidelines in Scotland on Tuesday 11th May with Prof Phil James as the key note speaker. Conference details to follow.
Move For Health Campaign
Find click on the link for more information (Move for Health) about the Move for Health Campaign, A joint campaign from The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and The British Dietetic Association to prevent obesity and help improve children and adults’ health at home, school and work.
‘Rough Guide to Commissioining for DOM UK members’
In response to the DOM UK survey carried out in the autumn, the Committee have written ‘A Rough Guide to Commissioining for DOM UK Members’. See the DOM UK website (Guide) to view the document. The guide was written quickly in order to get something out to the membership as rapidly as possible, therefore is not a comprehensive guide. It can be updated and developed in time if members feel this would be useful. If you have any feedback on this resource, including any gaps / ommissions or comments, please contact Kate Lees, Best Practice Development Officer on katelees1@hotmail.co.uk
DOMUK comments from NICE Public Health System - Preventing Obesity A Whole System Approach
Please find attached comments from DOM UK for the NICE obesity - a whole systems approach - Click on the link to view NICE Public Health System
Taskforce Launches: Experts in Severe & Complex Obesity (ESCO)
First Ever Multi-Disciplinary Group to Improve Access to Treatment for Severe and Complex Obesity in England
Please click on link for further information ESCO comments
MSc module in ‘Obesity Management’
DomUK is delighted to announce the launch of its’ collaboration with the University of Nottingham. To enhance our three day residential training for dietitians working in adult weight management, we have developed an MSc module with the University of Nottingham, called ‘Obesity Management’. This module is now available to all healthcare professionals working in adult weight management services.
This year-long module, which will cost £700 (non-residential), includes four contact days at The University of Nottingham, and is worth 20 credits at the MSc level. The University is accredited as part of the BDA MSc in Advanced Dietetic Practice.
Registration is open until mid-January 2010; informal enquiries may be addressed to Hilda Mulrooney, Training Officer domUK (hildamulrooney@yahoo.co.uk)
The Dietetic Intervention
Developed by Clare Grace for DOM UK. The purpose of this document is to consider how to relate the NICE and other obesity related recommendations to dietetic weight management interventions for adults in the one to one setting. In so doing it develops a suggested framework for the weight management consultation that is grounded in the evidence while proposing possible practical solutions in those under-researched areas where specific recommendations are as yet unavailable. It draws on the experiences of dietetic departments that have redesigned their services as a way of illustrating the processes used and the possible outcomes that can be achieved in practice. Importantly it also identifies areas of dietetic practice requiring further research and highlights the importance of auditing dietetic weight management services to enhance our understanding of outcomes achieved and developments required.
Surgery resources
Guidelines for dietitians and leaflets for patients - see DOM UK Resources
The department of health have now published guidance on the National Child Measurement Programme 2007/8 (Oct 2007)
Working with the Media: Obesity FAQs (2006)
After consultation with the BDA PR Committee, DOM UK committee members have pulled together evidence-based replies to commonly asked questions about obesity and its management. They serve as a useful resource when you have a short amount of time to reply to a media request, or in your day to day work.
They can be viewed in the Members’ area of the BDA website - www.bda.uk.com Once in the Members’ area, go to Groups, then Dietitians in Obesity Management UK. It can also be found in the PR Committee’s web pages (also in the Members’ area).
JHND Correspondence about Obesity Management
Author: DOM UK Committee and Alison Stephen
December 2004
As an organisation that represents UK dietitians working in the field of obesity management we welcome the paper by Barr et al, ‘Canadian dietitians’ views and practices regarding obesity and weight management’ (17, 503-512). However we wish to respond to a number of the comments made in the accompanying editorial – ‘The challenges of weight management’, Stephen A.M.
The link article below contains DOM UK’s full letter to JHND about this editorial, plus a response from the author.
