ACC Dietitians
Do you need a dietitian to support your clients during the rehabilitation process?
We are specialists in providing nutrition education and support to individuals with an injury or disability in Auckland, Dunedin and online NZ wide.
We are regrettably unable to accept self-referrals.
If you have an ACC claim, please ask your Lead Clinician or Case Manager to send ABC Nutrition a referral via one of the Suppliers we partner with.
Your rehabilitation nutrition experts
Our experienced Registered Dietitians provide nutrition support services under the Sensitive Claims Service (SCS), Pain Management Service (PMS), Training for Independence (TI) Programme, and Social Rehabilitation Needs Assessment (SRNA) ACC contracts.
How We Help ACC Clients
Our Registered Dietitians can provide your clients with personalised nutrition support for:
✔ Healthy eating advice to support their rehabilitation journey, including Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) or traumatic brain injury (TBI)
✔ Weight concerns and body image
✔ Disordered eating, eating disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia, ARFID, Binge Eating), and restoring a positive relationship with food
✔ Sensitive claims
✔ Nutrition and mental health
✔ Gut and bowel health
✔ Wound healing for pressure sores
✔ Enteral feeding
✔ Nutritional deficiencies and malnutrition
✔ Maintaining muscle mass
✔ Hydration
✔ Managing nutrition, eating and the side-effects that can come from chronic pain medications
✔ In-home cooking demonstrations, where our clients will learn to make nutritious home-cooked meals
✔ Supermarket tours
✔ and more ...
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our dietitians work with clients in their homes, via Telehealth, in clinics, or at a mutually agreed location (eg supermarket).
We offer a client-centred approach, where we listen to our clients’ concerns and their rehabilitation goals. During their sessions with us, we will help your clients to build a positive and peaceful relationship with food and their body, to support all their rehabilitation needs.
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ABC Nutrition has a team of dietitians located in Auckland and Dunedin.
We are able to offer in-home, clinic, or telehealth consultations depending on your client’s needs and location.
We can also see kiritaki online NZ wide, via telehealth.
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Providers: We partner with various ACC suppliers (listed below) across New Zealand to provide dietetic services. If you provide services to one of these suppliers, please send us a referral via your supplier’s usual referral pathway.
Sensitive Claims Service: If you do not work with one of our suppliers and are after dietitians to support your kiritaki under the Sensitive Claims Service, you may wish to contact either Active + or Geneva Wellbeing directly to see if you can access their Allied Health network to provide wraparound services, including dietitians. You would then send a referral via their respective referral pathways, noting ABC Nutrition as the preferred provider.
Suppliers: If you are a supplier that is looking for dietitian support, please contact us to discuss how we can work together to support your kiritaki.
Referrers eg GPs, therapists: Please contact ACC directly to find out whether dietetic input is covered for your patient’s claim. If it is, then please request that ACC kindly list ABC Nutrition as their preferred dietetic provider and please send us a referral via one of the ACC suppliers we partner with (listed below)
Self-Referrals: If you have an ACC claim yourself, please contact ACC or your Case Manager to determine if dietitian input is funded as part of your claim. If it is, you can then request that ACC list ABC Nutrition as the preferred provider for dietetic services and kindly send us a referral via one of the ACC suppliers we partner with (listed below).
Who We Work With
We are proud to partner with the following ACC Suppliers
