Associate’s Profiles

Senior Associates working at Nutrition and Wellbeing

PAT BACON

Background: Pat works as a Freelance Dietitian but also has a practice within the NHS both of which have extended over many years.  Pat has undertaken work both for the Better Hospital Foods program as well as the School Foods Trust and has had much experience in helping schools reach compliance. She has an excellent understanding of nutrient analysis and the limitations of the data available. Outside of the more formal role she has helped design menus as well as create recipes with clients to fulfill specific nutrient profiles and has produced work for the media with publications as diverse as Runner’s World and Glamour magazines as well as work for charities where recently she worked with catering students form Thames Valley University to design healthier recipes that looked good, were inexpensive and tasted great!

Pat’s expertise is in nutrient analysis and nutrient profiles.

DIANNE BOADEN

Background: Dianne Boaden is a freelance dietitian who has extensive experience of practical recipe calculation for clients as well as teaching good practice. Her experience includes over three years at King’s College London lecturing Food Service and Catering Management to dietetic students and previously a series of training courses at Leatherhead Food International. Dianne has a background in both NHS as a dietitian and in the food industry.  Recently she was one of a partnership that undertook a review of school meals analysis software for the School Food Trust, co-authored the Trust’s Step-by-step guide to calculating the nutrient content of school lunch recipes as well as a number of other projects for SFT and also FSA. Dianne has developed and delivered a number of  training days for dietitians and nutritionists to improve accuracy when calculating the nutrient content of recipes and presented this work at an International Dietetic Conference (2008). She has a working knowledge of a range of popular nutrient analysis software programmes and their use in recipe analysis.

Di’s expertise is in training, analysis of the nutrient content of recipes and menus, nutrient analysis software.

SUSAN CHURCH

Background: Susan Church is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist with 20 years experience in food composition and dietary assessment.  She spent 13 years working for the UK government on nutrition surveillance and policy, specialising in dietary surveys, such as the NDNS and LIDNS, and food composition, including management of McCance & Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods.  Since 2005, Susan has been a freelance nutritionist, remaining closely involved in this area, initially through the European Food Information Resource network and currently as a sub-contractor on the UK FoodComp project, which manages the Department of Health’s nutrient analysis programme   She also undertakes nutrient analysis of recipes and diets using nutritional analysis software and lectures part-time at Kingston University on dietary assessment and food tables.

 Susan’s expertise is in nutrient analysis, food composition and dietary assessment.

Other Associates

Nutrition and Wellbeing are always on the look out for talented nutrition and dietetic professionals to work as associates to the business. in addition to our Senior Associates we currently have over thirty Associates working with us, they have a wide range of knowledge and skills; having access to this pool of expertise enables us to meet clients needs.

Would you like to become an Associate?

If you are a registered nutritionist or dietitian and would like the challenge of being an associate in a fast moving company we would like to hear from you.  All the need to do is to email sue.lloyd@nutritionandwellbeing.co.uk. We will contact you after you email to find out more about what you can offer.