PRATIMA GOODFELLOW

BSc MICROBIOLOGY, MSC NUTRITION, PG DIP DIETETICS, PG CERT SPORTS NUTRITION

Pratima is a dietitian with over 17 years experience working for the NHS in the UK as well as in private practice and as a consultant to health-tech firms.

She is registered with the Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) and is a member of the British Dietetic Association. Pratima also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Sports Nutrition.

Pratima specialises in gut health and gastroenterology and she also has experience in a wide range of nutritional areas including nutrition support, oncology, weight management and diabetes.

EVIDence based nutrition

In the UK it is illegal to call yourself a dietitian (Registered Dietitian or RD) unless you are qualified as one and are registered to practice with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

To be fit to practice, dietitians have to continually keep up to date with the latest evidence, and keep a record of our professional development. Dietitians can called up by the HCPC to provide evidence on how we have been keeping up to date so that we can be re registered. So if you are getting nutrition advice from other people (celebrities, bloggers, chefs, personal trainers etc) you cannot be sure that the nutritional advice they are giving is correct, evidence based or up to date. If the advice is wrong or out date it could lead to health issues.

So if you want good quality, up to date, evidence based nutrition advice, it’s a dietitian you need, because you know you can trust a dietitian to know about nutrition.