EatWise SG for Healthcare Providers: Enhancing Community-Based Nutrition Care

What is EatWise SG?

This initiative addresses critical unmet nutrition care needs, including:

• Inadequate dietetic support

• Under-recognition of malnutrition

• Lack of care continuity for individuals with metabolic diseases, frailty, and malnutrition

Developed by the Ministry of Health Community Dietetics and Nutrition (COMDAN) Workgroup, EatWise SG brings together expertise from Dietitians, Family Physicians, Nurses and the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC). This collaborative approach ensures that patients are well supported through a risk-stratified framework for community-based integrated nutrition care.

Figure 1: EatWise SG care model - Risk-stratified approach to nutrition care

Why EatWise SG Matters to You

• Enhance Your Practice: Gain access to evidence-based resources to elevate your practice

• Improve Patient Outcomes: Collectively tackle malnutrition, metabolic diseases, and frailty with targeted diet interventions.

• Streamline Care Continuity: Benefit from clear referral pathways and inter-professional collaboration.

Stakeholder Involvement

The successful implementation of the EatWise SG care model requires coordinated efforts from multiple stakeholders, including:

• Healthcare Clusters

• GP clinics

• Community Care Organisations

• Agency for Integrated Care (AIC)

• Health Promotion Board (HPB)

This collaboration ensures patients and residents receive appropriate nutrition care in suitable settings, with established referral pathways to maintain care continuity.

 EatWise SG Resource Package: Your toolkit for quality nutrition care

A comprehensive resource package has been developed to empower healthcare providers in delivering quality nutrition care in primary care and community settings. This package is tailored for:

1. Lay extenders (Tier 1 providers)

2. Healthcare professionals, including GPs and Nurses (Tier 2 providers)

Resource Package Contents

1. EatWise SG Referral and Escalation Frameworks

Metabolic Conditions

2. For Lay extenders (Tier 1):

   • Training Curriculum (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

3. For non-Dietitian healthcare professionals (Tier 2):

   • Training Curriculum (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)

   • Clinical Nutrition Management Guidelines

4. Curated list of Patient Education Materials

Frailty, Malnutrition and Enteral Nutrition

5. For Lay extenders (Tier 1):

   • Training Curriculum

6. For non-Dietitian healthcare professionals (Tier 2):

   • Training Curriculum (Part 1) (Part 2)

   • Clinical Nutrition Management Guidelines

7. Curated list of Patient Education Materials

8. Nutrition Guidelines for the Preparation and Delivery of Quality Meals for Meal Providers

 Getting Involved

Join the growing network of healthcare professionals transforming nutrition care in Singapore. Contact your regional health cluster to get started:

• SingHealth: Cherie Tong, Lead, Dietetics, Regional Health System, SingHealth (cherie.tong.c.y@skh.com.sg)

• NUHS: Catherine CL Koh, Head Dietetics, Alexandra Hospital, NUHS Eatwise Lead (Catherine_CL_Koh@nuhs.edu.sg)

• NHG: Adj A/Prof Lim Yen Peng, Director, Group Allied Health (Yen_Peng_LIM@nhg.com.sg)

Embrace EatWise SG today and be at the forefront of nutrition care in Singapore.