Learn why discharge nutrition after brain injury is critical, including risks, planning requirements, and medico-legal considerations.

Learn when a dietitian should be involved after brain injury and how delayed referral may impact nutrition, recovery, and clinical outcomes.

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

Dietetic referral timing is one of the most common points of dispute in hospital malnutrition litigation. Allegations are frequently framed around delay — particularly where referral was triaged as routine rather than urgent. However, dietetic referral negligence does not arise simply because a patient was not reviewed immediately. The legal analysis is more structured. Hospitals triage referrals based on screening scores, intake, nil-by-mouth duration, metabolic stability

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

When nutrition is overlooked, duty of care is breached. Expert Witness Rick Miller explains how early dietetic action prevents litigation.