RCPCH Grand Round: Feeding the Neurodisabled Child | with Dr Su Bunn

In this webinar, Dr Su Bunn discusses feeding challenges in children with severe neurodisability, including the recognition and management of gastrointestinal dysfunction, feeding intolerance and gastrointestinal dystonia. She explores current evidence, multidisciplinary approaches to treatment, and how clinicians can support families with decision making as a child's condition progresses.

Speakers

  • Dr Su Bunn

Date of Recording

September 25, 2026

Available Until

September 24, 2027

The content of this webinar represents the expertise and views of the speaker and does not represent formal College position or policy, and is intended to provide an opportunity for informed discussion and shared learning on topics that continue to generate interest and debate.

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Speakers

  • Dr Su Bunn

    Paediatric Gastroenterologist

    Su has been a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist since 2001. Initially working at the Royal Stoke University Hospital before moving to the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, where she was Head of the Paediatric Gastroenterology Department for 13 years, leading their Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease team and nationally commissioned GI immunology service. Since 2017 she has been based at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital managing children across the North of Scotland (Highland, Shetland, Orkney, Moray, Grampian, Tayside and Perth & Kinross), an area of 53,000km2. She leads the complex enteral nutrition team for North of Scotland Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Network (NOSPGHAN). Su has a major interest in non-IgE mediated food allergy and is part of the faculty of the RCPCH Paediatric Allergy Training (PAT) course. She is Women and Children’s Service Divisional Clinical Director for NHS Grampian and Paediatric Clinical lead for NHS North of Scotland. Su has extensive experience in the nutritional / feeding challenges of children with complex neurodisability and their symptom control through feeding strategies and drug management. Being passionate about improving the quality of life and reducing feed related symptoms in this patient group, Su has been a longstanding proponent of the selected use of blended diet, introduced first to the concept by parents in 2009 and supported by her dietetic colleagues in Newcastle and the North of Scotland. She has increasing experience in the end-of-life care of neurodisabled children with intractable feed intolerance due to gastrointestinal dystonia.

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