When a patient dies in hospital and nutrition may have been a factor, a dietitian expert witness can assist the coroner in determining whether nutritional care met an acceptable standard and whether it contributed to the outcome. A practical guide for legal professionals and coroners.

Hospital malnutrition negligence claims often arise from poor documentation. Learn the five most common failures in hospital nutrition records reviewed by dietitian expert witnesses.

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

Learn about refeeding syndrome after brain injury, including risks, symptoms, prevention, and clinical management.

Learn how nutrition is managed in ICU patients with brain injury, including feeding methods, challenges, and risks of inadequate support.

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

Learn how aspiration pneumonia occurs after brain injury, the role of dysphagia, and how feeding decisions impact patient safety.

Learn when malnutrition after brain injury may be considered negligence, including failures in nutritional care, feeding delays, and dysphagia management.

Malnutrition in hospital patients may become legally significant when analysing whether nutritional decline materially contributed to death.

Rick Miller is a UK Registered Dietitian providing independent expert witness evidence in clinical nutrition and hospital malnutrition negligence cases.

Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) used in hospital nutrition screening to assess risk of malnutrition based on BMI, weight loss and acute disease effect.

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