I am a qualified Dietitian and have been practicing in the NHS for over 20 years with wide ranging experience in clinical dietetics both in the acute (including intensive care) and community (GP clinics) settings, seeing both adult and paediatric patients.
I have also been working in private practice at Spire Leicester since 2001 and provide a dietetic service to both in-patients and oncology patients. I have extensive experience in providing complex nutritional support eg enteral (tube feeding) and parenteral (intravenous) nutrition and understand the clinical safety requirements with both forms of nutrition support.
I speak Gujarati which is helpful when seeing Gujarati speaking patients.
I see outpatients with a written referral from a medical consultant.
Treatment information
Some of the principal treatments carried out by Ms Sonal Patel at Spire include:
Dietetics
Other treatments
I provide nutritional support following illness for cancer/oncology, gastrointestinal eg Irritable Bowel Syndrome (use of low FODMAP diet), coeliac, food intolerances, weight management, diabetes, cardiovascular health eg high blood pressure, high cholesterol, balanced eating, paediatric dietetics eg fussy eating, obesity, healthy eating.
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Additional information
Clinical interests
Special clinical interests: Dietetics – nutritional support following illness.
Qualification and professional memberships
BSc (Honours) / Kings College, University of London / 1994
Bachelor of Science
Professional memberships
Current NHS posts
Dietitian, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust