HEALTHCARE DELIVERY The document is
supported by the: • Royal College ofGeneral Practitioners.
• Royal College of Nursing. • British Dietetic Association. • Royal College of Physicians. • National Nurses Nutrition Group.
• British Pharmaceutical NutritionGroup.
• Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology.
• Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee.
• Primary Care Pharmacists Association.
Anne Holdoway, chair of the consensus panel that produced the guidance, commented: “With widespread support and endorsement from those professional organisations, it is hoped that the guide to managing malnutrition will provide an easily accessible tool to help decision making in the community, where 93% of malnutrition exists. In conjunction with improved awareness among clinical commissioning groups, who in turn need to work with local dietetic departments and secondary care services to agree protocols for referral to specialist services, it is hoped that we can move one step
Tim Bowling.
closer towards delivering excellent nutritional care in the community and eliminating avoidable malnutrition.” A comprehensive ‘organising
nutritional care diagram’ has also been introduced, which clearly shows ‘what good nutritional care looks like’. The diagram has been designed to enable organisations to see at a glance where improvements
could be made. The BAPEN Toolkit for Providers and
Commissioners has also been updated to assist the new Clinical Commissioning Groups in identifying the nutrition services their local populations require. Dr Mike Stroud concluded: “NHS
Trusts are continuing to fail to meet the Care Quality Commission standards for nutritional care, which is why we, along with Carers UK, are calling for the Government and Department of Health to develop a National Nutritional Strategy. We have the blueprint for what this strategy should contain and we have a wide range of effective tools ready to support Trusts to implement the necessary changes.We are looking to the Government to adopt this issue to enable real change by developing the right policy and system enablers.”
Dr Tim Bowling, chair of BAPEN,
added: “BAPEN is committed to furthering the awareness of malnutrition and its relevance for the healthcare economy as a whole. The initiatives that are being developed are helping momentum to be gathered, but there is still much work to be done before the healthcare profession as a whole, the commissioners, the politicians and the public at large fully appreciate the importance of malnutrition.”
Malnutrition petition announced
Dr Mike Stroud, chair of BAPEN’s Quality Improvement Committee, has set up an e-petition calling for the Government to act to eliminate avoidable malnutrition and dehydration. The e-petition, a collaborative project being undertaken with the Nutrition and Hydration Action Alliance, needs 100,000 signatures from healthcare professionals, patients and the general public in order to facilitate a debate on the issue in the House of Commons.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/ 34303
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