Consulting Services
Main areas of work focus
- Long stay private hospitals - nutritional assessment and care planning.
- Locum dietitian work for DHBs.
- Nutrition writing, research and teaching.
- Special projects and contracts eg nutritional information for food. companies, education of staff in healthcare organisations, heath promotion activities and delivering sessions in nutrition training and cooking for other ethnicities.
This what we do:-
Corporate Services and Advisory
Corporate Seminars
Hospital Support
Focus on groups
Spreading the healthy eating message
Can we have that in writing?
Research
Corporate services and advisory
- Assistance with developing policies and procedures for efficient management of oyur foodservice.
- Critical analysis of food service management.
- Food safety audits and risk management.
- Quality control audits.
- System development.
- Recipe research and analysis specific to Australasian food using top quality software.
Corporate seminars and workshops for staff on the go
Maintaining high energy and concentration levels throughout the day – and sometimes into the evening – is a must for busy corporates. It’s about boosting workplace productivity and having healthier and happier staff.
Consulting Dietitians makes it fun to learn about healthy food options and attractive ideas for improving eating habits in the workplace and at home.
Staff either attend our workshops and seminars, held in-house or at another location, or have individual consultations with one of our dietitians.
Learn about
- Eating and drinking for energy
- Healthy lifestyle changes to manage weight
- Help for cholesterol and blood pressure problems
- Dieting traps
- Quick ideas for meals and snacks
We provide:
- Reviews and audits of food choices in workplace cafeterias
- Menu reviews for early childhood centres
- Guidance on compliance with food safety regulations (e.g. corporate cafeterias, hospitals)
Hospital support – the best of nutrition for hospitalised patients
Our dietitians are a valued part of a multi-disciplinary team at hospitals and community-based healthcare facilities. Consulting Dietitians provides:
- Expertise on enteral feeding
- Practical, easy-to-implement advice for patients discharged from surgical and cardiac wards, and their carers, to manage nutritional health care at home. Our recipes and nutritional advice is adapted to suit an individual’s religious, cultural requirements, personal food and food preparation preferences, and budget.
- Nutrition-related assessment and follow-up of long-stay patients to ensure nutrition is assisting recovery or patient comfort, not hindering it. This assessment can be made in conjunction with medication and treatment reviews.
- Refugee training.
Consulting Dietitians provides expert and professional nutritional advice founded on the latest evidence-based research.
Focus on groups
We provide advice for members of organisations such as marae, education centres and sports bodies concerned for the health and wellbeing of their members or communities. Together we can plan, implement and evaluate effective nutrition promotion programmes and provide advice on menus and healthy catering choices.
Spreading the healthy eating message
We are experienced at presenting seminars, leading workshops and talking to groups of people in workplaces and the community, and we can adapt our presentations to suit the audience – from new parents to hospice volunteers, fundraisers to sports teams.
We enjoy sharing the professional knowledge and practical steps we’ve gathered over many years as professional dietitians – and we know that people learn in different ways.
Our Consulting Dietitians team doesn’t just talk to people, we get the message out about good nutrition and healthy living in a fun, memorable way. Sarah Ley is a food writer, columnist and former cooking class tutor as well as a respected dietitian, and other members of the team have particular interests ranging from nutrition for older adults to food safety.
Can we have that in writing?
Writing articles for general and specialist publications and for newsletters and websites is also part of our service.
During her long career, Sarah has been a columnist and contributor for More magazine, Suburban Newspapers, Food2Go magazine, and Catering Plus. Sarah currently writes the “Research Roundup” for Healthy Food Guide, a new publication commenced in 2005 to offer consumers sound, scientifically based advice.
Research – contributing to higher-level nutritional knowledge
Consulting Dietitians’ nutritional advice is founded on the latest evidence-based research. Director Sarah Ley has a postgraduate diploma in Community Nutrition, and a Masters of Science degree from Massey University - she continues to contribute from time to time to major research at Auckland and Massey Universities.
To date, Sarah’s contribution to research at Auckland University’s Department of Community Health has included body composition, weight management and heart health/diabetes. |
