Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
Referral to a DietitianReferral to a Dietitian
What we do:
A Dietitian will assess your dietary intake and will work with you to develop and agree a treatment plan to help meet your goals in relation to your diet and health concerns.
Examples of the benefits of seeing a Dietitian are:
- To live healthily with a long-term condition, e.g. diabetes, coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer, renal disease and weight management advice from the specialist weight management service.
- To achieve an optimal nutrient status – avoiding deficiencies of vitamins and minerals.
- To reach or maintain a healthy weight.
- To be supported to acquire a healthy relationship with food.
- To resolve symptoms caused by food allergies and / or intolerances.
How do you access a Dietitian?
The Dietetic services have referral criterias to ensure that you are seen by the right person at the right time.
You can ask your General Practitioner (GP) or other health care professional to refer you to a dietitian.
If you are under the care of a hospital consultant they, or a specialist nurse attached to the multi-disciplinary service, can also refer you to a dietitian.
Planned Care Referral Guidance
- See our Planned Care Referral Guidance document
Community Referral Form
 If you have a patient that you wish to refer to the general community dietetics team, please fill out the referral form and return to dieteticscommunitygeneralreferrals@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For all other specialist dietetic teams, please see the Planned Care Referral Guidance Document for further instruction.
