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Cooking with Confidence: Celebration Cake

The perfect alternative to your traditional party cakes; whether it’s for a special gathering or a birthday, the celebration cake is a great way to make sure your dysphagia patients can be included. Watch now for a step-by-step guide on how to deliver this decadent dessert.

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Cooking with Confidence: Trailer

You asked and we listened! The Cooking with Confidence video series is almost here. So, what can you expect in season one of our ‘Cooking with Confidence’ series? Brought to you by renowned Dysphagia Chef Gary Brailsford, from menu planning to perfecting your presentation, in this series we provide a step-by-step guide on how to create recipes that bring back the joys of food.

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Intolerance Decision Tree

Our free multidsciplinary tool for identifying symptoms of feeding intolerance and offering pragmatic guidance for their management. Download it today!

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Optifast Welcome Pack

The Optifast welcome pack gives you all the information you need about our Optifast products as well as usage instructions and a step by step guide on how to place an order. The Optifast range provides a selection of tasty products that have been developed specifically for medically-supervised weight loss. Why Optifast? - Nutritionally Complete & Balanced - Medically endorsed - Clinically Proven - Hassle free product ordering

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How the application of a digitally supported weight loss programme can support remission in Type 2 diabetes webinar

Watch our roundtable discussion about a new trial investigating achieving Type 2 diabetes remission through a remote low-calorie diet programme. Chaired by Oviva’s VP Clinical Lucy Jones, who was joined by a panel of expert speakers from the MIDDAS research team, this isn’t one to miss. Watch to discover: How 53% of the patients in the trial put their diabetes into remission How the research translates into delivering this care in clinical practice How a digital programme can benefit both the patient and the NHS More key results from the trial The programme used in the trial supports people living with Type 2 diabetes to achieve rapid weight loss using an 800kcal diet for a 12-week period, through digitally supported delivery of regular one-to-one support from a multidisciplinary team via the telephone and the Oviva NHS Digital approved app.

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Tolerance and Acceptability of a New Paediatric Enteral Tube Feeding Formula Containing Ingredients Derived From Food: A Multicentre Trial In The United Kingdom

Recently, as reported by dietetic departments in the United Kingdom, we have seen an increase in Homemade Blended Diets (HBD) being given to children requiring tube feeding. HBD practice may increase the risk of tube occlusion and nutritional inadequacies. In 2015 the British Dietetic Association (BDA) developed their first ‘Practice toolkit liquidised food via gastrostomy tube’, whic...