As the only representative body for the UK dietetic workforce, one of the key roles of the BDA is to influence on issues important to our members, their patients, and the public. Dietitians are public health advocates and we want to support them to perform this role.
Public affairs campaigns
Extend free school meal provision to all primary school children
This campaign aims to ensure that all primary school children across the UK have access to a high-quality, nutritious meal every day.
Develop a comprehensive UK Food Strategy
This campaign advocates for the development of a UK-wide food strategy that takes a comprehensive approach to food policy, considering everything from farming and production to nutrition and public health.
Extend independent prescribing rights to dietitians nationwide
This campaign aims to pressure the UK Government into taking the necessary steps to allow our members across all four nations of the UK independent prescribing rights, to deliver the efficient and necessary care that patients deserve.
Strengthening the dietetic workforce
This campaign advocates for a comprehensive, four-nation approach to protecting and expanding the dietetic workforce.
Commit to fair pay for NHS dietitians
The BDA is campaigning for a comprehensive, fully funded pay strategy to underpin the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
Political engagement 101: A toolkit for BDA members
This toolkit is designed to give you the confidence and practical guidance to engage with politicians effectively, ensuring dietitians’ voices are heard and reflected in policy decisions.
Other campaigns
The BDA's other campaign topics, including managing and preventing obesity, malnutrition, food poverty and insecurity and more.
BDA manifestos
BDA Manifesto
As both a trade union and a professional body, we champion the professional, educational, public, and workplace interests of our members.
Scottish Manifesto 2026
Our asks for the upcoming Scottish election 2026.
Welsh Manifesto 2026
Our asks for the upcoming Welsh election 2026.
Promoting the profession
Dietetic Support Workforce Day 2025
We're shining the spotlight on the dietetic support workforce on 26 November. Sign up to our webinar.
Dietitians Week 2025
The future of dietetics is this year’s campaign for Dietitians Week 2025, which will run from 2-6 June.
Celebrating Pride
Every year, across the globe, June is dedicated to celebrating the LGBT+ community, to promote messages of equality, love and friendship, empower LGBT+ voices but also recognise the ongoing struggles for many.
Greener AHP Week
We’re pleased to be supporting the third #GreenerAHP Week, exploring all of the exciting new initiatives to improve patient care.
Celebrating Black History Month
Black History Month takes place every October in the UK as a way of celebrating the work of Black people throughout history.
Celebrating AHPs Day 2025 - Tuesday 14 October
On 14 October, the dietetic workforce, along with the 13 other Allied Health Professions (AHPs) are invited to celebrate AHPs Day.
Ads and Fads
We plan to work with our members to tackle the misleading nutrition information that is rife on social media and online, by highlighting the worst offenders to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Take part in a campaign
Sometimes this will involve focusing on a specific topic or take the form of an ongoing campaign. You can access information on what we want to achieve for each campaign along with an explanation of how you can take part and further supporting documentation. These campaigns are agreed by our boards, specialist groups or our governing Board of Directors in conjunction with the BDA head office team.
All of the BDA's campaigns will benefit from support from our members, partners, and stakeholders. If you want to get involved or have questions or comments about any of our campaigns, there will be details of what you can do to help on each campaign page, which you can access on the left hand side of the page or above. You can also get in touch with our Public Affairs team.