The Nutrition Support Team is a multi-disciplinary team that consists of:

• Nutrition Nurses
• Dietitian
• Pharmacist
• Consultant Gastroenterologist

The Nutrition Support Team focuses on patients with complex nutritional problems that can occur as a result of disease or surgery. The team also assesses patients who require intravenous feeding or gastrostomy insertion.

Key Telephone Numbers

King George Hospital 0208 9705735 (Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm)

Queen’s Hospital 01708 435354 (Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm)

What type of treatments are available in our service?

Nutrition nurses are clinical nurse specialists with knowledge and experience in nutrition support. We are mostly involved with patients who are unable to eat or drink normally, and require special feeding tubes or intravenous (IV) access to receive nutrition in liquid form. We work in all areas of the trust as part of multi-disciplinary teams and have close links with the Dietitians

Nutrition nurses carry out the following tasks:

• assess patients for a variety of feeding tubes
• teach and support patients to look after their own tubes if they are going home with them
• teach ward staff how to look after patients with feeding tubes
• resolve problems with feeding tubes or IV feeding lines

Key staff

Lead consultant Dr Helena Deeney

Lead nurse Cliona Taleb

Referrals and other information

Written referral letters to the Nutrition Support Team should be faxed to 01708 435 338