Ella Terblanche

Critical Care Dietitian and PhD Research Student, Health Sciences University

Ella is a critical care dietitian, researcher, and strategic workforce leader with extensive clinical, academic, and national leadership experience across the NHS. She was honoured with an MBE in 2021 for services to critical care dietetics, recognising her sustained contribution to advancing practice, leadership, and professional standards.

She was the professional lead for dietetics for NHS Elect/ ICS AHP Critical Care Capability Framework and most recently is a project lead for the British Dietetic Association’s workforce programme. She is pursuing a PhD focused on improving nutritional recovery after critical illness, has contributed to multiple national publications, and has served as an investigator on NIHR multicentre portfolio studies.