News and press releases

The guidelines aim to support residential and nursing care homes to provide appropriate food and drink for residents in their care.

As part of our continued commitment to provide excellent membership value, we are delighted to be launching our new Avoidance Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Specialist Sub-Group.

We’ve launched our manifesto this month, highlighting our five priorities for a future government.

Food and nutrition experts at the BDA investigate the accuracy and support offered by Artificial Intelligence on key nutrition topics, and whether it’s possible to skip a trip to a healthcare professional altogether.

The BDA Awards and Honours for 2023/24 were presented to the most deserving members of the dietetic workforce at Birmingham’s prestigious Council House this week. The event brought together the great and the good and was the perfect setting for an afternoon of celebrating and networking.

Azmina Govindji has been awarded a Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding personal commitment to championing the voice of dietetics and the BDA.

Until everyone can benefit from this medication, with equal access - irrespective of postcode or budget, their success will be limited, warns BDA.

Professor Simon Langley-Evans has received the Honorary Associate honour, in recognition of his outstanding personal commitment to education, research and publishing in nutrition and dietetics.

Dr Barbara Engel has received a Fellowship, in recognition of her outstanding personal commitment as Chair, Vice-chair and Post Registration lead of the BDA Renal Nutrition Specialist Group (RNG) and achievements in the field of Chronic Kidney Disease.

Ongoing supply issues of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT – under the product brands: Creon®, Nutrizym® and Pancrex®) mean some people are at risk of running out in the short-term or experiencing difficulties or delays in accessing their prescriptions.

Nicki Ruddock is an advanced Clinical Practitioner in nephrology at the University Hospitals of Leicester. Nicki received an Ibex in 2024 in recognition of her personal commitment and significant contribution as a member of the BDA Renal Nutrition Specialist Group, and achievements in the field of renal dietetics.

Lisa Cooke is the Head of Paediatric Dietetics, Nutrition and SaLT at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC), University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Trust (UHBW).

As part of our continued commitment to provide excellent membership value, we are delighted to be launching the new Advanced Practice Specialist Group and Prescribers Specialist Sub-Group.

Members working in Health and Social Care Northern Ireland are now being consulted on the latest pay offer made by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The BDA welcomes the recent stance taken by Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, at The Times newspaper’s Health Commission Summit, where he proposed measures to address the growing number of people living with obesity.

The BDA welcomes the recent intervention in the House of Lords by Lord Bradley, who has been advocating for the government to extend independent prescribing rights to Allied Health Professionals.

Proper investment in NHS staff is essential for both the UK’s economic success and if there's to be any hope of filling record staff vacancies, health unions say.

The plan addresses critical issues such as cutting paediatric waiting times, reducing obesity, introducing breakfast clubs for all primary school children and banning junk food advertising aimed at children, all of which align with our core policy objectives.

This unnecessary proposal is totally unacceptable to the BDA and the other Agenda for Change unions.

New research has revealed the impacts of energy drinks are more significant and broader than previously understood - in particular negative outcomes for children’s mental health in addition to physical health.