Nutrition advice and support

Our dietitians can help you make sense of food and nutrition. They provide practical nutrition advice and support that fits your health needs, lifestyle and personal goals. Advice is tailored to you, not a one‑size‑fits‑all plan.

Our team has experience supporting people with:

• Using food to improve health and wellbeing
• Chronic disease management and prevention
• Weight gain or weight loss
• Nutrition for older people
• And more

Our dietitians work with you to help build confidence around food and eating. The focus is on making realistic changes that work in everyday life.

Shop Well, Eat Well – healthy trolley tours

Shop Well. Eat Well healthy trolley tour is a fun, dietitian-led tour of your local supermarket where you’ll learn how to make food choices work for you. Living in Western NSW with Type 2 Diabetes or another chronic health condition? These tours are for you!

On the tour, you’ll learn how to:

• Read food labels
• Compare products
• Cut through confusing food claims
• Make practical choices to support your wellbeing

Best of all, the tours are free to join, thanks to funding from the Western NSW Primary Health Network.

Session dates and locations:

Who is nutrition advice and support for?

Nutrition advice and support is for people who need a little help to help maintain a healthy lifestyle. You may benefit from seeing a dietitian for nutrition advice and support if you:

• Are managing a chronic condition, such as diabetes and cancer
• Have a significant change in weight
• Have low appetite or trouble eating well
• Find food shopping, cooking, or eating difficult
• Have had a change in medication
• Have food allergies and intolerances

Our team will work with you to support your health and wellbeing goals.

How do I access?

Fee‑for‑service appointments

• Available in our Bathurst and Dubbo offices
• No GP referral is needed
• You may be eligible for a Medicare rebate if you have a GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangement

Fully funded services for First Nations people

Available:

• In Bathurst through the Indigenous Chronic Disease Clinic
• In Coonamble, Dubbo and Wellington through local Aboriginal Medical Services

Please contact your local Aboriginal Medical Service directly to make an appointment.

Fully funded services for people with two or more chronic conditions

Available through the following GP practices:

• Coolah Medical Centre
• Dunedoo Medical Centre
• RFDS Gilgandra Medical Service
• Kandos Family Medical Practice
• Narromine Shire Family Health Service
• Oberon Medical Centre
• Trangie Family Medical Service
• Swift Street Medical Centre, Wellington

Please contact the practice directly to book an appointment.

What makes us different?

Fully funded Diabetes Education/Nutrition services are commissioned by the Rural Doctors Network (RDN) Medical Outreach Indigenous Chronic Disease Program and Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSWPHN) Keeping Healthy Puura Manti Program and funded by the Australian Government Department of Health.