Individual Consultations

Overview and Introduction

Private consultations can help you achieve your dietary and health goals. If you have one or more of the following conditions or needs (listed in this document), then we can assist you with your dietary, nutritional and lifestyle management.

If you wish to book an appointment now, you can online by clicking here.

How do Individual Consultations work?

Before prescribing your personalised Nutritional Program and educational requirements, medical and nutritional needs, eating habits, food preferences and lifestyle are assessed. Your social, occupational and psychological needs are also taken into account before the Dietitian devises a program to help you achieve your goals.

Personalised meal plans will be designed to suit your needs, discussed with you and supplied to you together with other appropriate literature, generally over the first few appointments.

In most cases, follow up appointments are necessary. During future confidential, personal counselling sessions, many different topics relevant to you and your needs may be discussed.
On a continuing basis, your Dietitian will aim to ensure that your hunger levels are minimal, your nutrient requirements are met and that you do not feel deprived, as you progress to your specific goal/s.

In devising (and continually revising) your menu plans, the Dietitian will aim as much as possible to retain your normal, everyday eating pattern, including only foods you enjoy, to ensure that your new eating habits are maintained with as little effort as possible.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Individual Consultations - What will I learn?

The following outlines some of the areas or topics that may be discussed during your follow up program. If you think you have a problem in any of these areas, or would like to discuss any of these topics at a particular appointment, please let the Dietitian know as well.

How to balance your diet for optimum health, nutrition and weight management.
How to plan and vary your food preparation techniques and daily menus for added variety, taste and nutrition to suit your lifestyle, hunger levels, tastebuds and social agenda.
Easy ways to modify your existing recipes and new, tasty, healthy recipes to experiment with.
How you can incorporate commercial convenience foods into your program and how you can understand and interpret food labels.
How to choose appropriate food and menu choices at different restaurants and take away food outlets.
Understanding your eating habits and learning how to manage your environmental (or external and emotional (or internal) triggers that can lead you to eat even if you are not truly hungry.
How to manage people who try to sabotage your eating plans.
Individually designed exercise programs.
If you are trying to lose weight, how to motivate yourself for weight loss.
If you are trying to lose weight, how to lose weight permanently, safely, without hunger or deprivation or forbidden foods, without eating differently to the family or having to purchase special foods.
If you are trying to lose weight, how you can include even your favourite indulgence foods, like chocolate or alcohol, and still succeed with losing weight.

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How can I make my appointment?

CLINIC APPOINTMENTS

Evolve Dietetics and Wellness - Flagstaff Hill (Nova Chiropractic Centre)

Evolve Dietetics and Wellness is excited to announce a relocation of our Blackwood Clinic to the Nova Chiropractic Centre.

Easy access, ample parking and a lovely, friendly atmosphere.

Caron Milham, Dietitian consults on Tuesday's all day, and Saturday Mornings.

Address: 90 Black Road, Flagstaff Hill. SA. 5159 Phone: 08 8270 2000

To book online at Nova Chiropractic Centre, please click here.

TELEHEALTH ( INCLUDING VIDEO ) APPOINTMENTS

This is a convenient option for people who wish to have a face to face consultation from the comfort and safety of their home. This is also beneficial for people with disabilities, who are home-bound, who are very busy and for those who live too far away to attend the clinic.

For more information about this service or to book an appointment please contact us.

Please note that after hours appointments are also available for Clinic and Video consultations.

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What happens at my appointments?

Following your first appointment with the Dietitian, in most cases, review (or follow up) appointments are scheduled. At these consultations your progress is reviewed. Often the Dietitian will ask you to keep a record of your food intake between appointments. If you have had any difficulties, then these can be discussed at your consultation as well. Often more literature is provided or sent to you (at no cost) to read, at each consultation. The Dietitian will also, discuss different things with you at each consultation, so that you continue to learn and gain new knowledge.

How often should I schedule my appointments?

Review consultations are often fortnightly to begin with, some clients, however, prefer (or benefit from) weekly appointments initially, to gain confidence and to have more support and guidance in the early stages. If you would prefer weekly appointments, please ask your Dietitian or our secretary. As you successfully progress toward your goal (or goals) and are able to follow your eating plan easily, appointments are generally spread out to monthly, until you achieve your goal (or goals).

If for example, you are on a weight reduction program, then your program would need to be reviewed by the Dietitian when you achieve your goal weight. Often changes will be made to your menu plan to enable you to maintain your weight (so you do not keep on losing or regain your weight) and the Dietitian will need to provide you with information so that you can permanently maintain your weight, on your own.

From that point, monthly appointments can then either be continued for a few months to review maintenance of goals, and then progress to a 3 monthly interval between appointments. If desired, appointments can be maintained every 3 months, or appointments stopped, as long as goals (eg your weight, blood sugar or cholesterol levels) are maintained.

You have the ability to make your follow up appointments when you wish, at a time that suits you, whether it be weekly, fortnightly, or monthly. If you would prefer weekly (or even monthly) appointments, and the Dietitian suggested fortnightly, then this is fine, just make sure to inform our secretary of your wishes.

You also have the ability to book many appointments at once, ahead of time, to ensure that you get the time that is most convenient for you. For example, you may decide to book 4.00pm appointments, every 2 weeks for a period of 2 months.

How long is a dietary consultation?

Please allow 45 minutes for your initial consultation and 15 or 30 minutes for your review (or follow up) consultations. If you feel you would like a 30 minute ( classified as an 'Extended Consultation'), please let our Secretary know when you make your booking.

If you have previously consulted with a dietitian please note your consultation is classified as an initial consultation if more than one year has lapsed between your appointments as the dietitian wil need to spend more time with you to reassess your needs and revise your Menu Plans . (Note: You'll also receive back the higher initial rebate from your health fund if you have cover.)

What is the cost of a dietary consultation?

Initial Consultation Before Health Fund rebate: $147

Review Consultation Before Health Fund rebate: $57

Review Consultation (Extended) Before Health Fund Rebate $87

Medicare Bulk bill (therefore no cost to client)

Payment of your account is due directly following your consultation by cash, cheque or credit card, and/or your private health fund card (using 'HiCaps') (see below). EFTPOS facilities are available for payment, using credit, savings or cheque accounts. Following payment, a receipt will then be issued to you.

Private Health Cover (and Hicaps)

Most 'Extras' tables with private health insurance funds cover dietitians.

HiCaps
For your payment convenience, we have HiCaps facilities, should you have private health insurance (with appropriate 'Extras' cover that covers Dietitian consultations). We can process your rebate directly and 'instantly' (for most health funds) with your card, so that you only have to finalise the 'gap' payment.

Medicare

If you ‘qualify' for a Medicare rebate, you will have ‘no gap' to pay, as we bulk bill Medicare direct.

Can I receive a private health fund rebate, and if so, how much will I receive?

Many private health insurance funds offer rebates for Dietitian services. If you have extras cover, you may attract a rebate of up to 80% of the consultation fee, for an individual consultation (depending on your 'table' or 'level' of cover and your actual fund).

If you would like more details on your particular level of coverage, appointment rebate(s) and annual limits please contact your health fund.

Annual Limits
Most health funds which have Dietitian rebates, will allow you an annual limit of between $200 - $800 for rebates for Dietitian services. This approximates to being covered for between 10 - 25 consultations over a year.

Joining a new Health Fund
If you currently have no private extras cover and wish to join a health fund, please note that a 'waiting period' may apply (often around 2 months) before you can collect your rebates, after you join. Therefore, please confirm the waiting period with your health fund.

Changing Health Funds
If you have private extras cover and you wish to change funds a waiting period may not apply if you are staying with a similar 'level' or 'table' of cover.

Does Medicare cover my consultations?

If you wish to find out whether you can qualify for Medicare funded appointments please speak with your doctor. Medicare can cover up to 5 dietitian consultations every year, if you qualify and your doctor refers you.

Referred Medicare patients
Your doctor will usually send us your Medicare forms prior to your first appointment.

Note: When you make your appointment with us, please check that we have received your Medicare paperwork including your EPC form from your referring Doctor. This will enable you to be able to qualify for Medicare rebates.