Core Group Updates BAPEN Medical Update


DR SHELDON COOPER ON BEHALF OF BAPEN MEDICAL COMMITTEE


Announcing the ‘Powell-Tuck Prize’ to be awarded by BAPEN Medical


Calling all training grade doctors/surgeons to submit quality abstracts reporting research/clinical aspects of nutrition, for poster presentation at BAPEN Medical Summer meeting (London) and both poster and oral presentation at the BAPEN Annual Conference in November (Harrogate).


Deadline for submission for consideration is Friday 2nd July at 17:00 via instructions on the BAPEN website, and must be marked as for consideration for the Powell-Tuck Prize in the submitting process: http://www.bapen.org.uk/ce_abstract_sub.html


Late breaking abstract submission closes 1st August


2010 at 17:00. Late breaking abstracts will be accepted for consideration of this prize and for poster presentation for the BAPEN Medical Summer Meeting (thus not attracting


abstract publication) as well as poster and oral presentations at BAPEN in November. Late breaking abstracts must be submitted to: sheldon.cooper@dgoh.nhs.uk


The inaugural presentation of the Powell-Tuck prize, named after the founder of BAPEN Medical: Professor Jeremy Powell-Tuck, includes £100 prize fund and free attendance at both BAPEN Medical Summer Meeting and the Annual BAPEN Conference (conference fees only).


Any queries, please direct to: sheldon.cooper@dgoh.nhs.uk NNNG Update LIZ EVANS,CHAIR – NNNG Well this is my first term as chair of the NNNG and it is proving to be a busy and challenging one.


We are pleased that BAPEN have agreed to endorse the competencies for Nutrition Nurse Specialists that two of our members Jane Fletcher and Lynne Colagiovanni have been working on. A huge thank you to them both for all their time, effort and dedication. The competencies will be officially launched at our Annual Conference on 21st June 2010.


This year’s Conference is at the National Motor Cycle Museum in Birmingham and it is not too late to book your place. This year’s packed programme will include a look at the Royal College of Physicians Oral Feeding Dilemma


Guidelines and implications for practice, quality of life in PEG patients, the nutritional requirements in trauma patients and much, much more! To see the full programme and to book a place, please visit our website at http://www.nnng.org.


Meanwhile, we are looking at holding another advance skills study day later in the year. These days are a chance to learn new skills and hone old ones. Places are limited so I advise you to keep an eye on the website for updates.


BAPEN Reports


BAPEN are continuously working as an Association, and with other likeminded Associations, to collate information and produce reports on current nutritional issues affecting hospital, community and social care. BAPEN has recently produced a number of new reports that are now available to purchase via the BAPEN office and website.


Reports available:


• Improving Nutritional Care & Treatment: Perspectives & Recommendations from Population Groups, Patients & Carers


• Combating Malnutrition: Recommendations For Action • Nutrition Screening Week 2008 Results • Malnutrition in Sheltered Housing Report


For further information,or to order a BAPEN Report, simply visit the publications section of the BAPEN website: www.bapen.org.uk/res_pub.html – order online, or contact the BAPEN office on:01527 457 850


7 BAPEN In Touch No.57 May 2010


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