News & Views News& Views New ‘Teach Yourself’ Training Tool Helps
Understanding of Malnutrition ‘MUST’learn is a ‘teach yourself’ package which has been created in an accessible format for a wide range of carers and health professionals. It provides guidance on using the well-established ‘Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool’ (‘MUST’).
One in Three Hospital Stays for Eating Disorders
are among Children Children account for more than one in three hospital stays for eating disorders, says a report from The NHS Information Centre.
Across all ages, stays for eating disorders totalled 2,579 in the year to June 2010 and children aged under 18 accounted for 882 of those.
The largest number of stays was
among 14, 15 and 16-year-olds. However, the figures for the year to June 2010 also show small numbers of children as young as ten were among those who stayed in hospital to be treated for one of the conditions, which include anorexia and bulimia as well as other, unspecified eating disorders.
Overall, the figures show:
• The number of stays for eating disorders increased 11 per cent to 2,579 in the year to June 2010 compared to the same period a year earlier when they stood at 2,316.
• 90 per cent of stays (2,326) were females.
• Anorexia was the most common primary condition among those treated in hospital for an eating
disorder and it made up around three quarters of all cases.
• The region with the highest rate of hospital stays per 100,000 of the population, for all eating disorders, was the South West Strategic Health Authority, whilst the North East SHA was the region with the highest rate of hospital stays per 100,000 population for anorexia.
• Stays for eating disorders lasted an average of 38 days.
The NHS Information Centre's
chief executive Tim Straughan said: “The report confirms that hospital stays due to eating disorders affect mainly young women and they are mostly treated for anorexia.
A large number of hospital stays are among 14 to 16-year-olds, but children who are even younger are also affected.”
The report is available at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/provisionalmonthl yhes
Launching new training tool to help understanding of malnutrition, left to right: Fiona Scott, Specialist Intermediate Services Dietician, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) Tracy Coultas, Innovation Manager - Publications & Training Aids, Health Enterprise East and Rachel Lee, Specialist Dietician, NNUH.
The new package has been developed by Fiona Scott and Rachel Lee, Registered Dietitians at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in conjunction with Norfolk Adult Social Services and with assistance from Health Enterprise East (HEE), the regional NHS Innovation Hub for the East of England.
Users of ‘MUST’learn can work at
their own pace through the CD Rom which comprises learning information backed up with exercises to allow practice and testing of the knowledge gained. There are also assessment exercises and when the training has been successfully completed, the user can obtain a certificate.
The benefits are that users will have increased confidence in assessing nutritional status, identifying cases of possible malnutrition,
“This new package fills an important gap in furthering the understanding of malnutrition. A wide range of carers and health professionals deal with this condition on a daily basis and this interactive ‘teach yourself ’ package provides both the information required and the flexibility for users.”
Fiona Scott and Rachel Lee added: “Having been the authors of ‘MUST’Teach last year, which is aimed at registered dietitians and those with specialist nutrition knowledge, we realised that a training tool for other groups of people working in caring roles was also needed. Early feedback has been excellent and we are delighted that ‘MUST’learn has already been endorsed by BAPEN.”
Three million people are living at risk treating
malnutrition early and thereby avoiding unnecessary referrals to the dietitian or hospital and they will know they are following best practice.
The training package has been
endorsed by The British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) which devised ‘MUST’ in 2003.
Tracy Coultas, Innovation Manager - Publications & Training Aids at HEE said:
of malnutrition in the UK. Malnutrition has an adverse effect on health,wellbeing and ability to work, making sufferers more prone to infection and illness. It is currently under-recognised and under-treated, leading to disease, delayed recovery, more visits to the GP and longer and more frequent hospital stays. Malnutrition currently costs the country in the region of £13 billion per year.
‘MUST’learn costs £29.99 and is available from
www.mustlearn.org.uk
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