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5 day wellbeing planner
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A 5-day digital planner including some of our most popular nutrition tools, with additional advice from Headspace, the NHS and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

Advance Practice

Research advances dietetic practice by the utilisation of the evidence base and application of knowledge to improve outcomes and quality of care.* Research should inform and influence all aspects of practice.

Aims

Encouragement of regular critical appraisal of the evidence base to update practice. Support the advancement and development of the evidence base. Facilitation of dissemination of emerging evidence amongst the profession and externally*. Generation and utilisation of research to expand the scope of the profession and to promote the credibility of the profession.

Objectives

Secure protected time to participate in generating or critically appraising research. Encourage the development and maintenance of the necessary skills to facilitate active involvement in research at all levels of the profession (BDA 2007). Facilitate dissemination of emerging research locally, nationally, internationally and across professions, to encourage adaptation of practice in accordance with the evolving evidence base.

Note

*Externally this may include service users (patients and carers), health professionals and the media.