Outpatients
A number of Primary Care Clinics are held at various locations across the City and County. These are for people referred by Primary Care Health Professionals/Teams.
We accept referrals for Adults/Paediatrics/HIV care/Specialist Obesity Pre-bariatric/Domiciliary (tel contact)
Referrals to our Service should be made via:
- SystemOne - PRISM and E-refer via tasks for SystmOne users
- PRISM - for non SystmOne users including EMIS practices (available on the HUB home page) and sent to LLR.nutritiondietetics@nhs.net
- Electronic referrals via LLR.nutritiondietetics@nhs.net or E-refer tasks for Community staff with limited access to SystmOne
- If you do not have electronic access, please contact us on 0116 222 7170 for further support
Referral Criteria - Adults
Please click here to access the adult referral criteria.
Information for health professionals showing referral route for adults in primary care
Housebound patients (Domicilary telephone contact) referrals should be made as above using the PRISM Domiciliary forms and by following guidelines:
Link to Area Prescribing Committee Guidelines - malnutrition in Adults
Adult Nutritional Screening Tool for use in the Community
To be used by Practice Nurses and District Nurses where scales are not available to weigh patients.
Referrals for patients in Care Homes
Care home to dietetics direct referral to Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetics Service (LNDS) is ONLY for patients who require nutrition support advice in relation to malnutrition and who meet the referral criteria after following the LLR Management of Malnutrition in Care homes pathway.
For all other dietetic referral requests for patients in care homes, GP's to please refer in line with the LNDS Adult referral criteria.
For further queries please contact 0116 222 7170 or email: lpt.dietitiansphcadmin@nhs.net.
Link to Area Prescribing Committee guidelines - Malnutrition in adults
Information for health professionals showing referral route for paediatrics in primary care
Referrals should be made via the referral routes above.