Further information for patients, family and carers
The Birmingham Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service produce and recommend a number of key resources. The main resources and useful websites and documents can be found below, some under subject-specific headers. There are some great links to recommended websites with good quality, evidence based patient information on a number of topics and health conditions.
Diabetes
Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition.
Diabetes UK - Eating with Diabetes
Useful BCHC Diabetes resources:
Diabetes in pregnancy
- Healthy Eating for Pregnancy and Diabetes
- Patient information video for dietary advice for diabetes during pregnancy
- Low GI Snack Ideas
- Diabetes UK - Managing your diabetes during pregnancy
- Diabetes UK - Gestational Diabetes dietary advice
- Perinatal Institute - Diabetes Leaflets
- Carbs & Cals - Gestational Diabetes
Early years and school age
Information on reflux in babies
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/reflux-in-babies/
Helpful videos for parents and carers of children with fussy eating
https://patientwebinars.co.uk/condition/fussy-eating-in-children/webinars/
Information on the national Healthy Start scheme for pregnant women and children
https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/
School food trust, the Trusts remit is to transform school food and food skills, promote the education and health of children and young people and improve the quality of food in schools.
School Food Trust
Food - a fact of life provides a progressive approach to teaching about healthy eating, cooking, food and farming from 3 to 16 years. This site provides a wealth of free resources to stimulate learning, ensuring that consistent and up-to-date messages are delivered.
Interactive healthy eating site for children from the World Cancer Research Fund
Gastroenterology and bowel health
General resources
British Dietetic Association (BDA)
Food facts
Committed to fighting all digestive diseases (gutscharity.org.uk)
Information for those diagnosed with coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH)
A selection of webinars developed by NHS dietitians in Somerset, including coeliac disease, constipation, diverticular disease, IBS and reflux disease.
Webinars for Irritiable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and the low FODMAP diet
These webinars have been created to help individuals who have been diagnosed with IBS to manage their condition.
Healthy eating and weight loss
The Change for Life website
www.nhs.uk/Change4Life
The NHS choices website healthy living page.
http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/loseweight/Pages/Loseweighthome.aspx
National Public Health Lifestyles website – One You.
https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou
Commercial weight loss support groups, such as Weight Watchers, Slimming World.
British Dietetic Association weight loss website
http://www.bdaweightwise.com/
British Heart foundation www.bhf.org.uk. A in depth guide to weight loss
https://www.bhf.org.uk/publications/healthy-eating-and-drinking/facts-not-fads---your-simple-guide-to-healthy-weight-loss
12 week weight loss plan
A family approach to a healthy lifestyle
http://www.mendcentral.org/
Weight Concern:
http://www.weightconcern.org.uk/
Useful apps:
- Change4life Smart recipes
- Change4Life food scanner
- My fitness pal
- One you Easy meals
The Eatwell Guide shows how much of what we eat overall should come from each good group to achieve a health balanced diet.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/the-eatwell-guide
Top tips for eating more fruit and vegetables
Interesting and fun blog piece about the colourful clues to the health benefits to be found in different types of food.
What does the colour of your fruit and veg tell you?
Weight loss surgery
http://www.wlsinfo.org.uk
Heart disease
Charity fighting heart and circulatory disease. The BHF funds research, education and life-saving equipment and helps heart patients.
Malnutrition
There are a number of guidelines available below to help you deliver the best possible nutritional care in the community. If you have any questions about these guidelines, please contact us at Priestley Wharf.
The Home Enteral Feeding Guidelines will be available for download soon, but in the meantime please contact us at Priestley Wharf, Tel: 0121 683 2300 for a copy. Y
ANCILLARY ITEM LIST.pdf [pdf] 187KB
Nutrition and COPD leaflet. If you would like to order copies of this leaflet please contact LG Davies on 0121 430 9000.
Oral Nutrition Support in Substance and Alcohol Misusers.pdf [pdf] 194KB
The following links are available to give ideas for boosting calorie intake for people who have a poor appetite or who are trying to gain weight.
- 02 Nourishing drinks chart.pdf [pdf] 40KB
- Increase_the_calories.pdf [pdf] 340KB
- 82709 BirmComm FoodBoosters web.pdf [pdf] 102KB
- Soft A5 final.pub [pub] 5MB
- Care home ongoing weight loss resource .pdf [pdf] 60KB
- Non-cows milk Nourishing Drinks.pdf [pdf] 201KB
- Minced and Moist Level 5 A5 final.pdf [pdf] 937KB
- Soft and Bite sized Final IDDSI 6.pdf [pdf] 1MB
- Pureed Diet Leaflet FINAL A5.pdf [pdf] 1MB
- Dysphagia Snack Recipes.pdf [pdf] 265KB
- Palliative Care Nutrition.pdf [pdf] 409KB
- Patient milkshake brochure.pdf [pdf] 769KB
- 01 Boosting the calories recipe adaption.pdf [pdf] 49KB
Maternal health
Healthy Eating in Pregnancy
- Healthy Eating in Pregnancy
- Checklist for pregnancy*
- Iron *
- Calcium *
- Coping with Sickness *
- BDA Pregnancy and Diet
*These leaflets are also available in Arabic, Bengali, French, Polish, Punjabi, Somali, and Urdu. Please email bcs.pcn@nhs.net if you would like the leaflet in one of these languages
Paediatric resources
- Fussy Eating Flyer. PDF Version.pdf [pdf] 483KB
- Food Diary.pdf [pdf] 175KB
- Diet and Autism Spectrum Disorders. PDF versionspdf.pdf [pdf] 608KB
- Does my Child need a vitamin and mineral supplement.pdf [pdf] 130KB
- Dental Care on Oral Nutritional Supplements.pdf [pdf] 126KB
- Childhood Behavioural Feeding.pdf [pdf] 105KB
- Bottle to Cup Updated 2022.pdf [pdf] 174KB
- Increasing Iron Intake Leaflet.pptx 2016.pptx revised print on short edge PDF version .pdf [pdf] 864KB
- Dietary Advice for Managing Constipation in Children.pdf [pdf] 436KB
- Healthier ways to increase your childs weight.pdf [pdf] 1MB
- Secondary lactose intolerance October 2018.pdf [pdf] 91KB
- Snacks to help you child gain weight.PDFversion.pdf [pdf] 157KB
Fussy eating
- Arabic version
- Bengali version
- Kurdish version
- Pashto version
- Polish version
- Romanian version
- Somali version
- Tigrinya version
- Urdu version
Physical activity
BeActive
http://beactivebirmingham.co.uk/
Walking for health
https://www.walkingforhealth.org.uk/
British heart foundation
https://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/preventing-heart-disease/staying-active
Check local councils websites for local leisure centers activities.
A collection of 2km and 5km walks all over Birmingham
Birmingham Walk 2000
Exercise on Prescription aims to help people to become more healthy by increasing their physical activity.
Exercise on Prescription
The City Council’s main website. Details of things to do and leisure facilities.
Birmingham City Council
Policies and Procedures
Recipes
Follow this link to our Startwell website to view our updated recipes:
Recipes Include:
Starters and Snacks
- Avocado & Mango Salsa
- Backed Aubergine and Tomato
- Cous Cous Salad
- Homemade Potato Wedges
- Hummus
- Minestrone Soup
- Mushroom Soup
- Naan Bread
- Noodle Pots
- Pitta Crisps
- Pumpkin or Butternut Squash Soup
- Raisin & Walnut Bread
- Rice Salad
- Roasted Vegetable Topped Muffins
- Salsa Salad
- Spicy Lentil & Carrot Soup
- Spinach Cornmeal Bread
- Stuffed Tomatoes
- Sweet Potato Mash
- Tortilla Wraps
- Yoghurt Dip
Main Courses
- Beef * Lentil Stew with Leek Dumplings
- Bombay Spiced Mince & Potatoes
- Chicken and vegetable Curry
- Chicken Biryani
- Chicken Chasseur
- Chicekn Kebabs
- Chicken Polka Dot Pie
- Chilli
- Cottage Pie
- Homemade Beefburgers
- Homemade Chicken Nuggets
- Jamaican Jerk Chicken
- Oriental Stir Fry
- Spaghetti Bolognese
- Spanish Omelette
- Sweet and Sour Pork
- Turkey Burgers
Fish
- Classic Kedgeree
- Easy Fish Pie
- Exotic Breadcrumb Fish
- Masala Curry
- Ocean Pie
- Salmon Dopiaza
- Salmon Fishcakes
- Sardine Pate
- Spinach, Chickpea and Prawn Curry
- Tuna with Vegetables and Pasta
Vegetarian
- Asian Vegetable Stir Fry
- Chickpea, Spinach and Mushroom Balti
- Karela Curry
- Mixed Vegetable Stir-Fry Pasta
- Quick Pizza
- Quick Vegetable Lasagna
- Quorn Tagliatelle
- Rajma Red Kidney Bean Curry
- Ratatouille
- Spinach Quiche
- Stir Fried Vegetables with Jerk Quorn
- Tomato Pasta Sauce
- Vegetable Curry
- Vegetable Omelette
Desserts
- Apple Cake
- Apple Crumble
- Apple or Pineapple and Sultana Upside Down Cake
- Baked Apple Meringues
- Banana and Date Loaf
- Bread and Butter Pudding
- Carrot Cake
- Fat Free Fruit Cake
- Fruit Salad
- Healthier Fruit Muffins
- Mixed Fruit Chat
- Oatmeal Cookies
- Pancakes
- Quick Creamy Rice Pudding
- Quick Easy No Fuss Trifle
- Rustic Apple Pie
- Strawberry and Pear Crunchies
- Wholemeal Fruit Scones
Drinks
- Banana & Strawberry Smoothie
- Banilla Whizz
- Celebration Non-Alcoholic Celebration Punch
- Fruity Cooler
- Mango & Orange Smoothie
- Raspberry & Blueberry Smoothie