Head and Neck Cancer is multifaceted and requires a MDT approach. Our article for this months British Dental Journal on nutrition, dietetics and oral health. Co-written with the brilliant @LornaMcCaul and Jose, Consultant Restorative Dentists 🦷 UCL Head & Neck Academic Centre BDA Oncology Specialist Group nature.com/articles/s4141…

Simple instructions on how to prepare a scientific poster. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ESPEN Nathalie Delzenne Nicolaas Deutz

Ongoing supply issues of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) mean some people are at risk of running out in the short-term or experiencing difficulties or delays in accessing their prescriptions. Read our guidance for patients or professionals ⬇ bda.uk.com/resource-repor…

🎉Another win for a bedside tool: Phase Angle Predicts Nutritional Risk and Prognosis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma🛠️📊. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 50-days free access:tandfonline.com/eprint/WEUQUXA… Lower Phase angle was associated with disease progression, lower muscle mass and function,

Want to know more about what life is like as a dietitian early on in your career? Take a look at our new case studies and get some tip and tricks on how to be successful in your first years as a registered dietitian. bda.uk.com/practice-and-e…

August 2024 Edition of our newsletter Training opportunities in technology Lots of opportunities for our AHP Support workers to sign up for including conference, leadership development and voluntary participation in research

For the 1st time in my life, I am terrified of being targeted because of my ethnicity and religion. Afraid to go to the job I love in the NHS and having to send my kids to camp whilst I work. I’m sad that some of my patients will cancel their appts because of fear too.

📣 Calling all members of the dietetic support workforce (DSW). Could you represent the interests and needs of DSWs across the UK? We have a vacancy for a DSW on the BDA Board of Directors. Find out more about this role and apply ⬇ bda.uk.com/about-us/jobs/…

UK dietitians 📢. How do you currently estimate nutritional requirements in practice? PENG are currently reviewing and updating the evidence for the next Pocket Guide. Please complete this valuable survey to inform this review and practice reflect.ucl.ac.uk/survey-of-uk-d…

The BDA is creating guidance on roles and responsibilities for the dietetic support workforce. If you’re a member of our support workforce, make sure your role is captured by completing the survey and share this with your support workforce colleagues ⬇ surveymonkey.com/r/DSW_Roles

Carla Prado, WCHRI member, co-authored a piece discussing sarcopenic obesity, which is is where a person with excess body weight has also lost a lot of muscle mass and strength. Read more: theconversation.com/sarcopenic-obe… Carla Prado, PhD, RD, FCAHS UAlberta Faculty of ALES

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 "Acceptability of and Adherence to Prehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" 📄 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Summary: Prehabilitation is well-received by patients, showed strong adherence, and led to improvements in physical function. 💪 Big thanks

A Plea regarding support for Internationally Educated/ Recruited staff: If you have an internationally educated staff member in your team, please, please, please encourage them to join a trade union. Please!That should be the first thing they do on arrival. I get emails from

📣 Stay and Thrive have been working with NHS Employers to support the update of the International Retention Toolkit. JOIN the Webinar on Thursday, the 12th of Sep 14:00-15:30 ☀️ TO REGISTER click link nhsemployers.org/events/support…

It's going to be amazing! Looking forward to 🤩 If you have not booked yet here is the link. Hopefully, we'll meet there! bda.uk.com/events/calenda…

A fantastic agenda and speakers planned for our study day. Plus some fabulous prizes and opportunity for networking on the day. Still time to book on. OSG look forward to seeing you

The vacations are almost over and we will keep our promise. Everyone stay tuned, we will start September with our new #ESPENfactsheet on how to assess the #GLIMcriteria of #diseaserelatedmalnutrition on #lowmusclemass

To support anyone raising awareness of the revisions to our standards, we created a simple poster for workplaces 💪 Download the full PDF from: hcpc-uk.org/revised-scpe