Name:
Lucy Eldridge
Post-nominal Letters:
MSc RD
Job Title:
Head of Nutrition & Dietetics and Associate Lead of Therapies
Organisation / Company:
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Biography:
Lucy Eldridge is the Head of Nutrition & Dietetics and Associate Lead of Therapies at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (RMH), this includes clinical, operational and strategic responsibilities and has worked there since 2011. She continues to work clinically across the tumour groups. Prior to joining RMH she worked for 15 years at Barts and the London NHS Trust working within the field of Oncology and Palliative care. As part of this role she also set up and developed the dietetic service at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney. She has an MSc in Cancer Care. In 2023 she was awarded the IBEX fellowship award by the British Dietetic Association for her contribution to the field of clinical nutrition and oncology.
Currently she is the Alliance Officer for the British Dietetic Association (BDA) Oncology Specialist Group, having previously been the chair, Education officer and treasurer over the past 9 years. She works on national initiatives with National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), World Cancer Research Fund and Macmillan, and represented dietetics on the ACCEnD program. She is the co chair of the Professionals work stream for the Cancer and Nutrition NIHR infrastructure collaboration.
She has worked with charities and other agencies updating and designing patient literature and guidelines. She has spoken at local, national and international conferences on a variety of topics relating to cancer and/or palliative care. She has written articles and chapters on nutrition, cancer and palliative care, and a chapter on the psychosocial influences on food choice of cancer patients.