Age Range
Children with a feeding tube up to age 16, or while attending a special needs school
About the Practice
When your child depends on tube feeding, parents need dietetic support that makes home and school feel safer. Manchester Community Home Enteral Feeding Dietetics supports Manchester families with feeding, nutrition and dietetic questions where meals, growth, allergy, sensory eating or tube feeding have become stressful. The focus is practical clinical guidance that protects the child’s health without turning food into a daily fight.
Clinical Expertise
Home tube feeding, growth monitoring, nutrition calculations, feeding plans, reviews, home visits, school visits and outpatient clinics
Special Needs School route referenced for older children; relevant where complex SEND and tube feeding overlap
Parent confidence and safety around tube feeding is central to the service
Why Work With Us?
Manchester NHS Tube Feeding Dietetics: Parents can see the professional route, dietetic or feeding scope and safeguarding questions before trusting someone with their child’s nutrition.
Home School and Clinic Reviews: Support looks at intake, growth, symptoms, safe foods, feeding history and family routines so the plan fits real life, not an idealised food chart.
Parent and Professional Connection: The service helps families understand nutrition, growth and tolerance so tube feeding becomes less frightening day to day.
Children with a feeding tube up to age 16, or while attending a special needs school
Manchester city-wide service covering North, Central and South Manchester
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NHS referral route
Home tube feeding, growth monitoring, nutrition calculations, feeding plans, reviews, home visits, school visits and outpatient clinics
Private routes may accept parent enquiries; NHS/HSC routes usually need referral or local eligibility checks
NHS review notes and care planning by pathway
Special Needs School route referenced for older children; relevant where complex SEND and tube feeding overlap
Feeding, mealtime routines, nutrition, growth, allergy management, tube feeding confidence and family food routines
School visits available by service route
Manchester city-wide service covering North, Central and South Manchester
Longsight Health Centre, Manchester, M13 0RR
Manchester