About Us
Nutritank was founded in 2016 by our exceptional multi award winning co founders, Dr Ally Jaffee and Dr Iain Broadley. They became acutely aware whilst in medical school that there was a lack of education and awareness regarding nutrition and lifestyle medicine, and how these interventions can be recommended to patients to improve their health. Nutritank is an innovative and trailblazing organisation that fills this gap in education by providing accessible education for medics and other health professionals on various topics pertaining to nutrition and lifestyle medicine, including exercise, sleep and mental wellbeing. Nutritank does this by providing regular webinars to health care professionals and a membership (a hub of information and educational resources and CPD).
Nutritank also works at a grassroots level in 2/3 of medical schools in the UK to ensure the next generation of medics are empowered and equipped. It now has 22 medical school branches with over 1500 medical students and junior doctors signed up to support the cause.
Mission, Vision and Values
Mission
To provide the highest quality medical education on food, nutrition and lifestyle medicine to healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care, so, that they can better advise patients on how to live healthier lives and to either prevent, mitigate or treat ill health.
Vision
The healthcare professional will invest more time, money and effort in advising and inspiring patients on food, nutrition and lifestyle medicine rather than using pharmacological or surgical treatments as first-line treatment.
Values
- Credibility.
- Trustworthiness.
- Evidence-based.
- Service to the healthcare community
Our Story
Nutritank, the nutrition thinktank aim is to address the educational deficiency within healthcare training. With the ultimate aim of improving patient care by preventing, managing and sometimes reversing chronic disease.
We are a multi-award winning and nationally recognised. Here are some highlights:
2019: Co-founders Ally and Iain working with Jamie Oliver and his Public Health Campaign’s team on the campaign nutrition4medics. This led to the addition of the following clause (2.19) to the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan: A commitment to ‘nutrition training, and an understanding of what is involved in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight ,varies between medical schools.’
2019: BBC Food – The Pat Llywellyn New Talent Award
2021: Dr Ally Jaffee awarded the Princess Diana Award, an award for young change-makers for her work in campaigning to have diet and nutrition added to the UK’s medical curriculum.
2021: Part of the working group for the new Association for Nutrition UK Undergraduate Curriculum in Nutrition for Medical Doctors.
2022: Co-founders were awarded the Prime Minister’s Point of Light’s Award for their game-changing work with Nutritank.
2023: Contributed to the Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare: A Practical Guide textbook
2023: Nutritank was featured in the official NHS book celebrating 75 years of the National Health Service.
2025: NHS course launched in partnerships with Cornwall NHS Trust
University Societies
Nutritank supports students undertaking healthcare courses by providing frameworks to run their own ‘Nutritank University Society’. Nutritank believes students should be supported as they quickly become Healthcare Professionals seeing patients face-to-face and need knowledge on food, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine to advise their patients best.
The national leader of the Nutritank University societies is Harleen Dhami who is a medical student. She supports all the presidents of each Nutritank University Society with all they need to run a society.
Contact Harleen to find out more about our University Societies