Nutrition and Dietetics Adult Outpatient Clinic - Hornsby Hospital

We provide nutrition and diet advice for people who have a medical condition that requires our nutrition assessment and nutrition advice.

We provide this service in the outpatient clinic at the hospital and in the home for select people.

We care for and treat people with:

• Enteral tube feeds
• Gestational diabetes
• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• Chronic kidney disease
• High cholesterol &/or triglycerides
• Malnutrition or greater than five per cent of unintentional weight loss
• Neurological conditions with associated reduced oral intake and/or weight loss
• New diagnosis of coeliac or Crohn's disease
• Obesity with  other relevant medical conditions (e.g. high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney disease, diabetes)
• Poor healing wounds
• Other medical problems requiring dietary advice

• Blood results
• Test results  
• Referral
• Medicare card

You may be referred into the clinic from a range of people including:
Referral from your GP, specialist, diabetes educator, cardiac rehabilitation, allied health staff, or after an inpatient admission.

You must be over the age of 18, live in the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai local government area and have a medically diagnosed condition requiring nutritional assessment and dietitian advice.

To access the service, you will need a referral letter from your doctor and a copy of your blood test results.  The letter must be include reason for referral, medical history, medications, and recent blood test results.

You may be able to be seen at  the clinic or at home if you are registered with My Aged Care and not on a home care package level three or four.

• GP referral  
• Allied health referral
• Medical referral