Hosted by Optimising Nutrition Prescribing Specialist Group
South East London ICB Prescribing Support Dietitians Ruth Chalke and Emma Illidge discuss their learning on how to introduce and implement sustainability into everyday practice. From discussing more sustainable choices with patients young and old, to leading wider whole department work as part of the Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust. With ambitious net zero goals for the NHS, what can dietitians do about the carbon and plastic footprint of ACBS products?
The webinar will be hosted on MS Teams.
Cost
The webinar is open to the below Members:-
- Optimising Nutrition Prescribing Specialist Group Members - Free
- BDA Members - £20
- Non-BDA Members - £25
Speakers
Ruth Chalke, Senior Specialist Prescribing Support Dietitian, South East London ICS
Ruth is a dietitian who has worked in the NHS for 10 years across a variety of specialisms, including Upper GI Surgery and currently, Prescribing Support across South East London. Ruth has had an interest in sustainability for a number of years; she co-leads the Nutrition & Dietetics Green Team (with Emma) and is a member of the Reducing Single-Use Plastics Working Group at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Resource Officer for the British Dietetic Association’s Sustainable Diets Group, and last year wrote an article for Dietetics Today magazine, looking at the environmental impact of Oral Nutritional Supplement packaging.
Emma Illidge, Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian – Prescribing Support, South East London ICS
Emma is a paediatric prescribing support dietitian with a strong interest in paediatric food allergies as well as improving and developing service delivery across the NHS to provide safe, equitable and sustainable care. She co-leads the Nutrition & Dietetics Green Team (with Ruth). She has been working for the NHS as a paediatric dietitian for 6 years, 3 of which in prescribing support, after she relocated from South Africa where she worked in various areas of dietetics, including in the infant allergy formula industry.
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