Dietetic & Food Services

Dietitians from the Department of Dietetics provide diet counselling and nutrition support to help individuals achieve desirable health outcomes for both acute and chronic diseases.

Whether you are seeking dietary advice specific to your medical condition or hoping to improve your health through diet, our dietitians can help you by providing a nutrition plan tailored to your needs.

Clinical Services

At Changi General Hospital (CGH), dietitians work closely with other health professionals in the delivery of patient care in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Inpatient Services

Diet counselling for the management of acute and chronic conditions including:

• Cancer
• Chronic kidney disease
• Diabetes
• Dyslipidaemia
• Dysphagia (with Speech Therapy)
• Eating disorders
• End stage kidney disease and dialysis treatment
• Gastrointestinal diseases (including inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome)
• Gout
• Ischaemic heart disease
• Liver disease
• Malnutrition/ malabsorptive disorders
• Nutrition Assessment & Nutrition Support
• Ostomy Management
• Sports Nutrition
• Stroke
• Weight management (including bariatric surgery)

Dietitians also offer nutrition support to critically-ill/malnourished patients. Nutrition support includes:

• Provision of oral nutritional supplements
• Enteral feeding (delivery of nutrients through a tube)
• Parenteral nutrition (intravenous nutrition)

Outpatient Services

Dietitian outpatient appointments are offered at the following clinics:

Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolic and Endocrine Centre

• Chronic Disease Management Clinic
• Counselling sessions at this clinic cater to a range of conditions including lifestyle diseases (e.g. diabetes, high blood cholesterol, hypertension), malnutrition, and enteral feeding)
• Joint Diet/DM Counselling Clinic (JDD)
• A joint consultation involving dietitians and Diabetes Nurse Educators which aims to optimise blood glucose control of patients on intensive insulin therapy
• Bariatric Clinic
• Dietitians at this clinic focus on the dietary management for pre and post bariatric surgery patients
• Lipid Clinic

Geriatric Day Hospital

• Dietitians conduct nutritional assessments and offer geriatric-focused nutrition support at this clinic

Singapore Sports Medicine Centre @ CGH

• Weight management and sports nutrition dietitian consultations as well as multi-disciplinary weight management programmes

Singapore Sports Medicine Centre @ Novena

• Weight management and sports nutrition consultations are available at this satellite clinic

Nutrition Clinic

• A joint clinic conducted by Speech Therapists and Dietitians, catered to patients with swallowing difficulties and/or on tube feeding

Renal Clinic

• Dietitians optimise the dietary management of patients with chronic kidney disease as well as dialysis treatment