The BDA Bwrdd Cymru, BDA South Wales Branch and BDA North West & North Wales Branch hosted an evening event on Wednesday 8 October at Village Hotel Cardiff.
It was wonderful to see so many members attend the evening—thank you for coming!
Speakers
- Dee Lowry, Assistant Director Value & Efficiency, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board will present Feeding value: how dietitians can shape the future of value-based healthcare in Wales
This talk explores how dietitians play a pivotal role in delivering care that truly nourishes people – not just through food, but through understanding what matters to them. Dee Lowry will share insights from her work embedding Value-Based Healthcare, highlighting how dietitians can lead system change by focusing on outcomes that reflect people’s real lives, choices and experiences.
- Tanya Rumney, Workforce Lead, BDA and Lisa Williams, All-Wales Nutrition Training Facilitator, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board will present An update on the enhanced and advanced practice BDA Workforce Project
Tanya will provide an update on the work the BDA is undertaking to promote opportunities for dietitians within the enhanced and advanced levels of practice, including an overview of the dietetic career framework which was launched in May 2025. Lisa Williams has developed a case study, available on the BDA Advanced Practice webpages, and she will be discussing her career and development into the advanced level of practice in more detail.
- Orla Adams, Dietetic Lead for Maternal Weight Management and Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, Cardiff and Vale UHB presenting Why MI? Fueling Healthy Futures Through Prevention: The Power of Motivational Interviewing in Dietetics.
Orla will share how Motivational Interviewing is effective in Dietetic practice across the lifespan with a focus on prevention. She will share experiences of learning and implementing MI into conversations about change across a broad range of settings and conditions.
- Sian Taylor, Clinical Specialist and Strategic Lead Dietitian CAMHS, ABUHB and Angharad Banner, Highly Specialist Paediatric & CAMHS Dietitian, CTM will present Leading the Way: How social media sparked national change
The session will take you on a timeline of the development of the ARFID Specialist Interest Group (SIG), charting how the position statement was created and how it became the catalyst for an explosion of BDA activities supporting our profession. We will highlight the progress and leadership shown in Wales and what our nation is doing to help ensure ARFID is “everyone’s business’.
Poster submission
We invited posters to be on display to share best practice.
Bursaries
We offered limited travel bursaries to those who are travelling more than one hour.
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