New Webinar
Hosted by the Paediatric Specialist Group
We have prepared this study day based on our member’s suggestions of topics. The study day will focus on Blended diets, IBS in teens and food insecurity will be some of the topics in our study day. We will have parents/carers to support with the discussion related to blended diet with their own experience.
The study day will only be held virtually.
Talks and speakers
Blended diet: Practicalities in the acute and community settings with Ruth Stanley and Sarah Donohoe
The first part of the session will focus on the implementation of blended diet in the acute hospital setting, and community settings such as children's hospices, schools and respite centres. It will include examples of supporting documentation for blended diets such as shared decision making tools, information leaflets and recipe books.
The second part of the session is a focus on practical aspects of a blended diet, including an opportunity to practice mixing foods to the correct consistency and administering the blended diet.
Sarah Donohoe is the clinical lead for paediatric dietetics at South Tees NHS trust in Middlesbrough, she is due to complete the Msc Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) course at Teesside university this summer. Sarah’s role as a community paediatric dietitian led her to work with the BDA in 2019 and 2021 and contribute to the development of the position statement and Blended Diet Tool Kit. Sarah has facilitated the introduction of blended diet in local schools for children with special educational needs, children’s hospices, and respite centres. Her love of food, children and the importance of positive feeding experiences are the drivers for her work.
Ruth Stanley is the Advanced Lead Paediatric Gastroenterology Dietitian at the Great North Childrens Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. She has extensive experience of successfully providing support to patients using blended diets with a variety of medical conditions. Recognising the clinical benefits that blended diet can provide to patients, Ruth has been actively involved in improving the blended diet experience for patients during hospital admissions. Ruth produced her trust guidelines for the use of blended diets via gastrostomy for inpatients which has also been adapted in a number of other centres. She has contributed to the development and production of the BDA position statement and tool kit for blended diet.
Parent/Carer and School experience on Blended diet - Sofia Topakas
A family of three, Daniel (dad), Sofia (mum) and Alexis (7-year-old boy). Dan and Sofia were both in academia, but since Alexis’ birth Dan has been looking after Alexis full time. Sofia is a university lecturer. Alexis had a hypoxic insult at birth, which has left him with several difficulties, such as learning disability, epilepsy, mild cerebral palsy, ADHD, cerebral visual impairment, sensory processing difficulties, and paediatric dysphagia. Alexis is tube fed blended diet via a gastrostomy button. He was being fed breast milk, before graduating to blended food. He attends a special school for cognition and learning difficulties, and he is thriving there. He enjoys playing video games, and he loves snakes and penguins. He also does gymnastics, swimming, tennis and football and enjoys cycling and scootering. The family lives in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.
Nourishing Kids with IBS: Expert Insights with Bahee Van de Bor
Bahee Van de Bor, Freelance Paediatric Dietitian, UKKIDSNUTRITION
Bahee is a paediatric dietitian with 16 years clinical experience of which 12 years were spent at Great Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust. She’s currently chair of the BDA Paediatric Specialist Group and is passionate about raising awareness of IBS in children.
Brief Summary of talk: Did you know that upto 20% of children struggle with tummy troubles like constipation or porridge stools that are related to IBS but there’s insufficient clinical studies in paediatrics? Learn more about IBS in paediatrics with example case studies.
Food exposure in ARFID patient's with Angharad Banner
Angharad is a paediatric and CAMHS Dietitian with over 20 years clinical experience and a committee member of the Paediatric Specialist Group of the BDA and ARFID Specialist Interest Group. She consults for the Vegan Society and BBC for their Tiny Happy People platform as well as BBC Education writing articles and educational material and presenting at Roadshows across the UK. She has a passion for cooking and has written several recipe books for nutrition companies sharing family recipes with an understanding of allergenic cookery. She co-wrote the BDA ARFID Position Statement and is now involved in many other projects to educate, promote and showcase the skills, knowledge and expertise of dietitians working with ARFID.
Brief Summary of talk: Angharad will be discussing food exposure in ARFID patient's as well as giving an update on the many projects that the ARFID Special interest group are currently involved with.
Food insecurity with Aashna Kundra, Hiba Batool, Dr Sally Moore, Isabel Rice and Kiran Atwal
Isabel Rice, Registered Dietitian, Food Poverty Campaign Coordinator, Sustain
Isabel is a registered dietitian with a background in clinical and public health nutrition working with marginalised populations in London. She has undertaken research and advocacy work focusing on food insecurity and health in the UK, and management of frontline food aid provision. Following a master’s degree in Nutrition for Global Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a thesis project based on improving access to health and nutrition services for disabled children in Uganda, Isabel was further inspired to work towards promoting more sustainable food systems and reducing food poverty and health inequity.
Isabel joined Sustain in September 2022 to coordinate the Food Poverty Campaign which highlights and encourages sustainable responses to food poverty, particularly where they address the root causes. She project manages the Good Food for All Londoners report and associated events, which benchmarks councils and aims to inspire leadership on food policy and practice, as well as offering direct support to councils. She also runs the Connecting Community Food Enterprises project, which aims to support food projects seeking to move away from emergency food aid provision and become more financially sustainable and embedded within the community. She is also a committee member and events organiser for the BDA Public Health Specialist Group.
Brief Summary of talk: Isabel will discuss the current prevalence, causes and consequences of food insecurity in the UK on health and life chances, as well as key policy areas of focus to tackle the root causes, and the importance of dietitians in this work.
Aashna Kundra, Research Assistant, University of Leeds, ANut
Aashna is an associate registered nutritionist, who pursued a master's in nutrition in 2022 from the University of Leeds, and currently is working there as a Research Assistant in the School of Food Science and Nutrition. Aashna's role ends in August, and she will soon be taking the role of a Health and Wellbeing Coach at the NHS, working in primary care on the InHIP (Innovations for Health Inequalities Programme) project.
Aashna's interests include tackling inequalities in deprived regions, food insecurity, policy-making and public health.
Brief summary of talk: An individual’s level of food security, defined as having access to sufficient safe and nutritious food to meet nutritional needs, is an aspect of person-centred care that concerns dietitians who aim to support people to manage and improve health using food and nutrition. Given the increase in Food insecurity (FI) levels in the UK and the limited available literature, this scoping review was undertaken to provide more information to dietitians and the public regarding several roles a dietitian performs and current research around food insecurity that demonstrates areas of impact and scope of future research.
Hiba Batool, Associate Nutritionist, Route2Health
Hiba Batool is from Pakistan. She is a registered Associate Nutritionist, with a Masters degree in Nutrition from The University of Leeds. Hiba completed my Masters on a fully funded Commonwealth Shared Scholarship. Currently, she work as a Nutritionist at Route2Health, where she provides nutrition coaching, handles nutrition related communications and carries out all health-related research.
Hiba is particularly interested in community nutrition and food insecurity. Coming from a third world country and seeing the food injustice across the globe has sparked her interest in this particular area.
Brief Summary of talk: The current state of food insecurity in the UK and across the globe has led everyone to find and perform their due role in addressing and tackling the issue. However, healthcare professionals like dietitians do not seem to be very well trained to address issues like food insecurity. Hiba explored the current UK curriculum and training to find out the importance given to food insecurity, to know how well dieticians are trained to address the issue. She also explored all the domains in which dieticians can play their due role in addressing and helping the food insecure.
Kiran Atwal, Registered Dietitian, Professional Affairs Officer of the Paediatric Specialist Group of the BDA, and MSc Student on the Advanced Professional Practice for Paediatric Dietetics
Kiran is a paediatric dietitian with over 10 years of clinical experience across many specialism of paediatrics, as well as experience working in research and industry. She is currently under taking the Advanced Professional Practice for Paediatric Dietetics and planning her dissertation which she will be discussing at the study day. Kiran also volunteers for the Paediatric Specialist Group as the Professional Affairs Officer.
Brief summary of talk: Kiran will be exploring the impact of food insecurity on the management of children living with food allergies in high-income countries
Dr Sally Moore RD, MMedSci, Fellow HEA, Lecturer in Nutritional Science, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds
‘When to use specialist diets in childhood obesity with a spot light on disordered eating’ with Lisa Cooke
There are some exciting new innovations in childhood obesity and dietitians are leading nationally, make sure you are up to date and can support and lead this really important agenda, which has some amazing new resources that are free to use in clinical practice.
This session will provide up to date research, information and free education on childhood obesity and its management the latest resources, the support the Paediatric specialist group is offering and examples of good clinical practice
The talk will cover the obesogenic environment; the consequences of excess weight in childhood; the theory of treatment; complications of Excess Weight (CEW) in children pilot project; clinic runs; obesity tool kit and case study on using very low-calorie diets in children
Lisa Cooke, Head of Paediatric Dietetics, Nutrition and SALT, Joint AHP lead for the Division of Women’s and Children’s, Clinical lead for APP Masters in Paediatric Dietetics, Plymouth University, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, MA BSc RD
Lisa is the Head of Paediatric Dietetics, Nutrition and SALT at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. She has worked in tertiary level paediatrics for many years and has led the specialist team in Bristol for 24 years. She has extensive experience and has covered most areas of paediatric dietetics. She has studied to be able to perform physical assessments in children to enhance and extend her scope of practise. She is passionate about paediatric dietetics and has a strong drive to make clinical research everyday practise for the profession. She currently works clinically within the specialities of Paediatric HIV, complex community and obesity.
Cost
- Paediatric Specialist Group member £75
- BDA Member £105
- Paediatric Specialist Group Student Member £30
- Non Member £115
Important - Recordings will be emailed to all those who purchase tickets, these will not be available to purchase afterwards. Therefore please ensure you have bought your tickets prior to the event if you are planning on watching the recordings
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