The ketogenic diet is an established and evidence-based treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy in children, and increasingly in adults. It is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, protein-restricted dietary regime that induces and sustains a state of ketosis, altering the brain's primary fuel source in a way that reduces seizure frequency and severity in a significant proportion of patients. For children who have failed multiple anticonvulsant medications, it can be transformative. It

In FII and perplexing presentation cases, nutrition is often the presenting feature. An HCPC-registered dietitian on the proper scope of dietetic expert evidence, and the standard-of-proof discipline these cases demand.

Criminal cases involving nutritional neglect require a dietitian expert who can differentiate medical complexity from inadequate care and assess whether a child's or adult's nutritional presentation is consistent with neglect or explicable on other grounds.

ARFID and restrictive eating disorders create complex medicolegal issues in civil, criminal, and coronial proceedings. A dietitian expert witness can interpret nutritional presentation, assess standard of care, and address causation in cases involving eating and feeding difficulties.

Hospital malnutrition can occur when children’s nutritional needs are not recognised during admission. Learn when hospital nutrition care becomes legally significant

When should a child be referred to a paediatric dietitian? Learn when delayed referral becomes clinically or legally significant in paediatric negligence cases.

Growth charts allow clinicians to identify faltering growth and monitor a child’s development over time

Understand the difference between failure to thrive vs faltering growth, why terminology matters, and how growth chart interpretation becomes relevant in medical negligence cases.

Food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools: dietitian expert witness explains risks, care standards, and negligence issues.

Dietitian outlines feeding disorders in children, management approaches, and medico-legal considerations.

Paediatric malnutrition can occur in UK healthcare settings when nutritional care is inadequate. Learn when it becomes negligence and the role of a dietitian expert witness.

What is failure to thrive and when does poor growth become a negligence issue? A paediatric dietitian expert witness explains faltering growth, terminology and legal interpretation.