Train in Nutritional Therapy

Find out more about the training opportunities and career prospects below

NTEC Accreditation

Students from NTEC accredited courses gain nutrition and lifestyle medicine sciences, research and clinical skills to practice as a Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners providing personalised nutrition and lifestyle medicine recommendations

in a one-to-one setting, or they can benefit from their education in

nutrition and lifestyle medicine sciences to work in a non-clinical role as a nutritionist.

Find out more about your potential future career options.

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Are you considering training as a Nutritional Therapist?

NTEC's accreditation procedures involve a rigorous process that thoroughly assesses the course programme against the Nutritional Therapy Core Curriculum and National Occupational Standards. Trained accreditation assessors:

Review course documentation
Hold discussions with the course teaching team and administrators, students and graduates
Evaluate the evidence from external examiners' reports and students' assessed work
Observe teaching in the classroom and the clinic

Graduates of courses that have been fully accredited are eligible to apply for direct entry to the professional register held by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), and will enable you to become a member of British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT).

The CNHC holds an Accredited Voluntary Register (AVR) for the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA). The PSA oversees statutory bodies and accredits organisations holding voluntary registers for health and social care occupations in the UK.

As of 1st of September 2020

Find out about requirements for BANT membership here.

BANT Full Membership will require Bachelor’s (Hons) degree or higher from a recognised university and NTEC accreditation for Nutritional Therapy practice.

Training providers may have differences in course formats, examinations and entry requirements but, by selecting an NTEC-accredited training provider, you can be confident of taking a course that is designed to deliver professional training, academic content that meets the needs for degree in higher education and clinical training for safe practice. Specific information about each course, its prospectus, application procedures, fees and its work towards accreditation can be obtained by contacting the institution direct.

All of the training providers listed here are part of the NTEC accreditation process. Their current accreditation status is noted.

As an accrediting organisation, NTEC is unable to give personal advice to prospective students. Anyone wishing to study nutritional therapy should enquire of the training institutes about the features of their courses and make their choice after suitable due diligence. Please refer to the bottom of this page for further information.

Accredited Courses

The NTEC assessors accredit the courses on the basis of the information supplied by the training providers.

Any prospective student of nutritional therapy should carefully consider their choice of training institute and ask appropriate questions to help select the most appropriate course for them.

As a general guide:

Training to meet the competencies laid down in the National Occupational Standards will require in-depth study of the health sciences
There are no exemptions from clinical practice for other health professionals

You can access the list of accredited courses here.

Nutritional Therapy Education Commission

BM Box 3304 London, WC1N 3XX

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NTEC is an executive agency of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine.

BM Box 3304 London WC1N 3XX

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