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Dietitian Schema

Schema.org implementation for dietitian practices — MedicalBusiness with HCPC and BDA as memberOf, hasOfferCatalog for dietetic services (IBS, eating disorders, diabetes, sports nutrition), and Person schema with HCPC registration number (DTxxxxxx) and BSc/MSc Dietetics.

Definition

Dietitian practice schema uses MedicalBusiness (for practices with clinical NHS-adjacent focus) or ProfessionalService, with HCPC and BDA as memberOf references. Key properties: (1) **@type**: MedicalBusiness for dietitian practices — dietitians are HCPC-regulated healthcare professionals; (2) **memberOf**: HCPC (url: hcpc-uk.org) as mandatory statutory regulator; BDA (url: bda.uk.com) as voluntary professional body — both as Organization objects with name and url; BDA specialist group memberships where the practice has specific clinical focus; (3) **hasOfferCatalog**: list specialist dietetic services explicitly — "IBS and gut health dietetic support", "Eating disorder nutrition therapy", "Diabetes dietetic management", "Sports and performance dietetics", "Paediatric dietetics", "Weight management", "Food allergy assessment and management" — service specificity enables structured entity matching for specialist queries; (4) **openingHoursSpecification**: in-person and telehealth session availability; areaServed with "GB" for telehealth scope; (5) **Individual Person schema**: HCPC registration number in hasCredential (format: DTxxxxxx); BSc or MSc Dietetics qualification; BDA specialist group memberships as EducationalOccupationalCredential objects; SENr accreditation for sports dietitians; (6) Server-rendered in initial HTML — JavaScript-injected schema not eligible for Rich Results.

Why it matters for SEO

Explicitly listing specialist dietetic services in hasOfferCatalog makes individual clinical specialisations machine-readable — increasing eligibility for structured entity queries. HCPC memberOf enables Google to verify the mandatory statutory credential. BDA specialist group memberOf provides supplementary clinical depth signals.

How DeepSEOAnalysis checks this

DeepSEOAnalysis validates @type selection, checks HCPC and BDA memberOf, validates hasOfferCatalog service specificity, checks Person schema for HCPC registration number format (DTxxxxxx), and confirms server-rendering of all structured data.

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