Specialist Dietitian, St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton

Samantha Bailey is a registered dietitian currently working freelance alongside her post at St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton. Since qualifying in 2000 she has covered many different areas of dietetics including nutritional support, oncology, cardiology, medicine, surgery, diabetes and gastroenterology. She has experience working within inpatients and outpatients as well as community settings such as GP clinics and nursing homes. Samantha has a special interest in PCOS and has been involved in specific multidisciplinary clinics at Bedford Hospital since 2002. She also runs freelance clinics in Bedford and Northampton. 

Samantha has written two nutrition information leaflets for women with PCOS. The first explains current dietary and exercise recommendations including weight management, glycaemic index and cardioprotection. The second leaflet aims to address some of the difficulties of lifestyle change specific to PCOS such as barriers to exercise, binge eating behaviour and low self-esteem. Samantha has recently formed an interest group for dietitians which currently has 70 members. She hopes that this network will promote dietetics as a profession in the management of PCOS and encourage development of resources and guidelines.