NHS Grampian Community Dietitians

11/08/2025

07/08/2025

🚲Cycle To Work Day 2025🚵

On this day, we are encouraged to swap our cars for bikes, for our commute to work.

It is a great reminder that this is a beneficial option for supporting sustainability, as well as our physical and mental wellbeing!

06/08/2025

👶World Breastfeeding Week🤱

This week is world breastfeeding week. There are many benefits to breastfeeding. It is a free, sustainable resource that meets the nutritional needs of most infants for healthy growth and development.

Find some more information on breastfeeding via the link below.

Your milk is unique to your baby and their nutritional needs. This fact sheet provides information about human milk, breastfeeding and where to get advice and support.

05/08/2025

Have a look at the 3 Scottish Universities where you can study dietetics!

🍎🥤🥦🍽🍰🥛☕🍫🧂

https://www.rgu.ac.uk/study/courses/977-mdiet-nutrition-and-dietetics

https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate-human-nutrition-and-dietetics-glasgow

https://www.qmu.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/2025/master-of-dietetics-mdiet-bsc-hons-dietetics-2025-entry/

05/08/2025

📚SQA Exam Results Day 2025!📋
Best of luck to everyone receiving exam results today.📝

Thinking about your future after getting your results today?
What about dietetics?🍽🍓

Have a look at the BDA link below on What Is A Dietitian to help you understand the profession.👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

https://www.bda.uk.com/about-dietetics/what-is-dietitian.html

04/08/2025

31/07/2025

⏰📚'Time For You' - SAMH 📱🩷

We recently had a talk from one of the lovely ladies part of the Time for You service that is part of Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH).

Time for You is an online or telephone wellbeing support service available to anyone aged 16 and over living in Scotland who is experiencing mild to moderate challenges with their mental health or wellbeing.

Please find further information via the link below:
https://www.samh.org.uk/about-us/our-work/time-for-you

29/07/2025

Industry guidelines for the food additive glycerol (E 422) in slush ice drinks.

24/07/2025

International Self Care Day💙💆‍♀️🧘‍♀️

Take some time to pause and do something for you today!🤩

10/07/2025

As part of Alcohol Awareness Week, today we ask you if you know your units! Our home measures of wine are rarely 1 unit! 🍷

-1 Pint of beer, lager or cider at 4% ABV is 2.2 units
-A 330ml bottle of beer, lager or cider at 4.5% ABV is 1.5 units
-A 175ml glass of wine at 12.5% ABV is 2.2 units
-A 250ml glass of wine at 12.5% ABV is 3.1 units
-A 750ml bottle of wine at 12.5% ABV is 9.8 units
-A 25ml measure of spirits at 40% ABV is 1 unit

There's an informative quiz you can take to assess your own habits here, the results may surprise you: https://www.alcoholaberdeen.org.uk/

10/07/2025

♻ Aberdeen dietitians prove ambitious recycling target is achievable

A team of dietitians at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) are proving it is possible to exceed The Scottish Government’s ambitious recycling target of 70%.

NHS Grampian's ‘Recycle Plastic, It’s Fantastic’ initiative, led by dietitian Rosa Holt who is also a local farming advisor, has resulted in the recycling rate for oral nutritional supplements and enteral tube feeds increasing from 6% to more than 80% within the critical care department in just one year.

Rosa explained: “Across NHS Grampian, we use around 100,000 of these bottles every year within acute clinical areas alone. This represents a huge volume of recyclable materials, highlighting the importance of raising awareness about recycling.

“This is the tip of the iceberg. With many patients at home or in other settings receiving care using prescribed items that can be recycled, it’s even more important to raise awareness so everyone can do their bit no matter where they are.”

The team’s success has sparked curiosity among staff, leading to a surge in enquiries about other recyclable items. From yogurt pots to empty IV fluid bags and soft plastic packaging, the list of recyclable items staff are realising they can recycle continues to grow.

Rosa added: “We can recycle more items here at work for NHS Grampian than we can at home and it all goes into the same bag so it’s really easy to do. It’s just about getting that across to people. When we started, our survey showed 77% of staff wanted to know more about how to recycle at work and since then we’ve discovered that 44% prefer ward-based or face-to-face information about recycling. We’re doing as much as we can to support colleagues in person, and we’ve also launched a YouTube playlist to provide accessible information quickly to staff across our sites.

“We know there is a real appetite for change, and people are truly embracing new ways of making recycling part of their routine. We have also had feedback from patients telling us it’s a relief to know NHS Grampian is doing its best to minimise our environmental impact. We have also discovered that, when it comes to recycling, protecting the environment is a priority for 68% of colleagues.”

View the team’s YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsdr6W_mthrrr6T_YwIxT2fZ100eMiHW5&feature=shared

The NHS Grampian recycling project has gained widespread recognition and has been replicated across several sites in NHS England. It was recently featured in the University of Brighton’s Intensive Care Society Environment Sustainability Recipe Book.

Reflecting on just over a year since the project got underway in NHS Grampian, Rosa commented: “It has been a really quick year with lots of people from all over the country getting in touch to find out how to replicate our work in their own areas. This is hugely exciting and we are incredibly grateful for everyone getting involved and supporting the project so far.

“Collaboration is key. For anyone who’s keen to make a difference in their area I’d recommend starting out with one or two small goals, like reminding everyone where the recycling bins are on the ward, showing visitors where recycling facilities are or choosing a different item each week to show it’s possible to recycle.

“Recycling takes no extra time and is the cheapest option for disposal in NHS Grampian, beating the others by a country mile, so it’s absolutely worth putting items in the right bin.

“Working with our Waste Manager Neil Duncan was essential to this project starting and continuing on its journey – there is so much more we can do.”

Find out more about NHS Grampian’s commitment to recycling by visiting: www.nhsgrampian.org/sustainability

📸: Rosa (left) alongside her colleague Malgorzata in the critical care department at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.



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09/07/2025

✨Alcohol Awareness Week✨
~~~7th-13th July~~~

This week is alcohol awareness week, have a look at Alcohol Change UK charity webpage.

We are the alcohol charity, Alcohol Change UK. We work across the UK to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. We are not anti-alcohol; we are for alcohol change.