Clinical practice
Clinical work
Most of what arrives in a primary care dietetic clinic is not a tidy referral question. Gut symptoms with no clear cause, weight and appetite that won't behave, eating alongside illness, work, caring and exhaustion.
The questions that come up most
What people arrive with
- Gut symptoms, IBS and functional presentations with no clear cause
- Weight, appetite and metabolic health that hasn't responded to advice
- Eating well alongside a long-term condition or poor nutrition
- Not knowing where to go, after several redirections
Why context counts as clinical information
Sleep, stress, money, work, caring, past experiences and how safe a body feels all shape what is realistic. Advice that ignores them tends to fail quietly and then get recorded as non-adherence. Treating context as part of the assessment usually explains more than repeating the advice does.
Patient-facing resources
Tools and explainers written to answer the questions above.