A documented professional practice, clinical workflow and quality management system for nutrition and dietetics services — from validated screening through GLIM malnutrition diagnosis to internal audit and management review.
Overview
Clinical nutrition now carries the full weight of a regulated discipline. Malnutrition is expected to be diagnosed against the GLIM (2019) consensus criteria, care is expected to follow the Academy's Nutrition Care Process, and the service itself is increasingly expected to run as a managed system in the spirit of ISO 7101:2023, the healthcare quality management standard. Most dietetics departments practise well but document unevenly — screening tools with no controlling policy, nutrition support with no escalation record, competency with no audit trail.
This system closes that gap in three layers: professional (who practises — anchored in the ICDA Competency Standards 2016, the ICDA Code of Ethics and the HCPC Standards of Proficiency 2023), clinical (how care is delivered — through the NCP, GLIM and the A.S.P.E.N. 2013 and ESPEN 2025 nutrition support guidance) and management (how the service is governed — mapped clause by clause to ISO 7101:2023). A controlled Standards Reference & Traceability Matrix ties every referenced principle to the policy that requires it, the procedure that implements it, the form that records it, the KPI that measures it and the checklist that audits it.
What this system covers
The documentation follows the full patient journey and the full management cycle:
- Nutrition Care Process — referral and intake, validated screening, comprehensive assessment (anthropometric, dietary, biochemical and nutrition-focused physical findings), PES-format diagnosis, care planning, intervention, education and counselling, monitoring, reassessment and discharge.
- Malnutrition and nutrition support — GLIM two-step diagnosis and severity grading (with the 2022 muscle-mass guidance), refeeding risk escalation, enteral and parenteral nutrition monitoring, and food–drug interaction review.
- Professional governance — ethics, informed consent, confidentiality, scope of practice and delegation, competency assessment, CPD and performance evaluation.
- Service management — document and record control, risk management, incident reporting, internal audit, KPI reporting, management review and continual improvement, aligned to ISO 7101:2023 clauses 4–10.
- Education and labelling — patient education material control, healthy diet principles per FAO/WHO (2024), and nutrition labelling and claims review under Codex CXG 2-1985 (as amended 2024).
Guidance documents explain the judgement calls — writing defensible PES statements, applying GLIM, selecting screening tools, muscle-mass assessment methods and their limitations — while a modular training curriculum with a trainer guide and assessment item bank turns the documentation into a departmental induction and competency programme. An implementation and customisation manual, a customisation register and a readiness checklist govern adaptation to your own care setting, and square-bracket placeholders mark every organisation-defined value.
Who it's for
Heads of nutrition and dietetics departments, chief clinical dietitians and quality managers in hospitals, clinics, long-term care and community nutrition services — whether formalising an established department, standing up a new service, or preparing the nutrition function for accreditation and internal audit. It equally serves consultants implementing clinical governance for dietetics teams, and training programmes that need a complete, worked example of a professional practice system.
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly do I receive?
A downloadable ZIP containing the full set of ready-to-use documents for this toolkit — manuals, procedures, forms, records, checklists, guidance and training material, all in editable Word and Excel format. The exact document count is shown at the top of this page.
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Does this certify my organisation?
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