NCH&C Annual Summary 2019-20

Dietetics service NCH&C welcomes community dietetics service The community dietetic service transferred from NNUH to NCH&C in December 2020. 25 staff joined us via TUPE in a move to improve patient pathways. Patients continue to be referred to NCH&C community dietetica in the usual way and continue to receive the same service in their homes and community clinics, often seeing the same staff as before at the same venue or close by. Jo Gravells, Louise Sillett and Melissa Goodall are Specialist Learning Disabilities Dietitians. “We’re a team of four Specialist Learning Disability Dietitians covering the whole of Norfolk as a county-wide service. We see patients with a learning disability for a range of nutritional concerns including: nutrition support, Type 1 & 2 diabetes, allergies, intolerances, coeliac disease, IBS, metabolic conditions, weight management and vitamin and mineral deficiencies. We work out in the community with our MDT colleagues and tailor our advice to create bespoke dietary advice for our patients. As Specialist Learning Disability Dietitians we ensure our service users receive the correct dietary advice that is person-centred to their needs, taking into account their learning disability, with reasonable adjustments made to support them where necessary. Multi- disciplinary work is essential and there are five different LD Teams across Norfolk (North, South,

East, West and City) that we cover/work in.” “We’re really happy to be joining an Outstanding and inspiring organisation. We share NCH&C’s values and beliefs around delivering the best patient care. We see this move as a great opportunity to continue to develop our service for our patients. “Transferring to NCH&C will better equip us to work out in the community and spend more time with our patients, with more joined up working with our MDT colleagues. This will in turn help us to provide better patient care. It will also improve our integrated working within the learning disability service and therefore improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of care our services uses receive.”

100 years of LD Nursing

2019 marked the 100th anniversary of Learning Disability Nursing. We held a special lunch for all our LD Nurses to say thank you for the unique contribution that this speciality makes to the field of nursing and the wider community. Our CEO, Josie Spencer, who presented our LD Nurses with certificates of thanks, said: “It was an honour to be able to say thank you to this team of nurses. They play such a key role in so many people’s lives, directly supporting people with learning disabilities and their families.”

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