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BAPEN Conference Good Nutritional Care Means Safe Care


Presenting also in the opening session Dr Ailsa Brotherton, currently seconded to the DH’s Safe Care Programme, stated that good nutritional care is embedded into the safe care work stream being taken forward and for which she is responsible. She described the three stage approach – involvement, improvement and engagement – which will see Chief Executives and Boards held to account for delivery of improvement “There has been an enthusiastic response from


Trusts,” said Ailsa, who will be working with 300 organisations via Webex and face-to-face meetings. She went on to explain the PDSA improvement methodology – Plan, Do, Study, Act – which has already proved successful in tackling infection rates.


Dr Ailsa Brotherton was elected BAPEN’s Honorary Secretary at Conference and awarded the charity’s Roll of Honour for her work on quality and commissioning.Ailsa presented in the opening session from her perspective as National QIPP Safe Care Programme Manager for the Department of Health and chaired the ‘Test your IQ: Improvement in Quality’ symposium which was supported by the British Dietetic Association.


Test your IQ: Improvement in quality


“The CQC speech at the start of the Conference highlighted the relevance of this topic to the daily professional lives of all delivering nutritional care,” comments Chair of the IQ symposium Ailsa Brotherton.


Source:A M Brotherton presentation at BAPEN 2010


“Nutrition and hydration are to become key indicators of safe, effective, personalised experience of quality care.” Source: Presentation by Sally Bassett at BAPEN 2010


As a result the seven speakers in this symposium presented to a packed auditorium with standing room only. It proved to be such a packed agenda that the audience missed the coffee break but no-one left! “The core purpose of this session was to enable delegates to understand the nutritional guidelines and standards that now apply, their role in delivering this agenda, and most importantly how they can start to gather the evidence to meet CQC’s requirements,” continued Ailsa.


Evidence required


In answer to the question: What evidence exactly will organisations have to provide to show they are delivering quality nutritional care? the CQC responded by saying that each organisation is to decide how they will demonstrate that. “That’s the right answer,” said Ailsa. “We must all


think hard about the quality of care being delivered and how you can demonstrate that. If you are participating in BAPEN’s Nutrition Screening Week, collecting the data and training your staff with say the BAPEN e-learning module then reviewers will have confidence that appropriate attention is being paid to nutritional care.”


There was a timely reminder though that for the CQC it will be the outcomes of care that will be measured. Screening and training are tools and routes to get there but organisations will need to show the benefit for patients and residents. Delegates were urged to use the CQC’s observation tool for Inspectors to assess how they are currently performing and where improvements are needed.


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BAPEN In Touch No.59 December 2010


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