Hosted by Optimising Nutrition Prescribing Specialist Group
An update on the bigger picture prescribing data for nutritional borderline substances and what new insights and opportunities this provides to ensure their appropriate and sustainable future use.
Cost
- Optimising Nutrition Prescribing Specialist Group Member FREE
- BDA Members £20.00
- Non Members £25.00
Speakers
Alison Smith, Prescribing Support Consultant Dietitian/Integrated Care System Lead Dietitian, Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
About Alison - Since 2013 Alison has worked as a Prescribing Support Dietitian within Clinical Commissioning Groups and now an Integrated Care Board. Her role focusses on appropriate prescribing of nutrition products, with a particular remit for prevention, identification and appropriate treatment of malnutrition using a food-based approach. Alison’s other professional interests include nutrition screening, care homes, frailty, sarcopenia, dysphagia, hydration, dementia, pressure injury and end of life.
Alison is chair of both the Department of Health and Social Care Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances (ACBS) and the PrescQIPP Nutrition Virtual Professional Group. In 2021 she was made a Fellow of the BDA for her services to the profession.
Mary-Jo Pryor, Strategic Category Lead, Medicines Value & Access Directorate, NHS England
Rebecca Fisher, AHP Prescribing Advisor, London Procurement Partnership
About Rebecca - Worked as a dietitan in the NHS for over 15 years. Interests include relationships with food and drink across the lifespan, including relationship with prescribed food and drink. Rebecca works in clinical practice at Royal Free London CAMHS eating disorders service and as a regional Allied Health Professional prescribing advisor. Rebecca is on the professional committee of the British Dietetic Association (BDA), and is the research officer for the BDA Optimising Nutrition Prescribing Group.
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