My wife was a State Registered Dietitian and practiced for a few decades, mostly private or rather arms-length with the NHS. I can see why you might not get much out of an NHS dietitian. Increasingly they have been pushed into a dependent role and no longer have rhe skills to manage special dietary needs. The standard text used in the UK, Bryony Thomas’s, used to cover the dietary management of things like diabetes, PKU, G6PD, anorexia, coeliac disease and gout, but all that stuff has been dropped in the current edition. It’s designed to produce managers of nursing homes with one-size-fits-all catering. Dietitians in the UK are now specialists by job title but not by knowledge. Diabetes UK is a much better bet.
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