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MNI Grant for the Best Initiative to


Fight Malnutrition The MNI Group is pleased to announce the annual €30,000 grant for the most innovative national initiative to fight malnutrition and increase the awareness of malnutrition. The grant will be made payable through the national PEN society endorsing the initiative. The winner of the grant will be announced during the Malnutrition Event at the ESPEN 2011 Congress in Gothenburg in September 2011.


Criteria • Must be endorsed by a national PEN society in Europe, but not necessarily run by a national PEN society


• Must have been implemented in the last 24 months • Must be relevant to driving national nutrition policy • Must generate a protocol/model which can be rolled out nationally and/or in other countries


• Must not have previously received this grant for this initiative


Submission Requirements


The following information must be included: • Demographic information: – National society endorsing submission – Contact person with contact information (name, telephone number, email address)


• Title of project • Description of the initiative • Rationale/background of initiative • What was done (activities)? • How it was done (implementation)? • Resources utilised (personnel/time/financial) • What makes the initiative innovative? • How was success measured? What made this initiative successful?


• Key learnings from this initiative • How did this impact nutrition intervention, outcome and patient care?


• What makes this an initiative that would be of interest on a national / European level?


• Next steps Submission process


Submission must be submitted in a poster format. Poster format guidelines


The poster should be laid out as follows: • Title and brief description of initiative • Rationale/background of initiative • Activities • Implementation • Results/outcomes (clinical perspective) • Conclusions including relevance to nutrition policy


Submission date Due date is 15th June 2011. Send submission electronically to: administrator@mni-online.com Any queries can be sent to: administrator@mni-online.com


3 BAPEN In Touch No.61 May 2011


Announcing the “Powell-Tuck Prize” to be awarded by BAPEN Medical


DR SHELDON COOPER on behalf of BAPEN Medical Committee Calling all training grade doctors/surgeons to submit quality abstracts reporting research/clinical aspects of nutrition, for both poster and oral presentation at the BAPEN Annual conference in November (Harrogate).


Deadline for submission for consideration is Monday 4th July 2011 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 The 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 the annual BAPEN conference (conference fees only). This year there will also be runner-up prizes for free attendance at the BAPEN Medical teaching day at Harrogate (conference fees only), the day prior to the main BAPEN meeting. Any queries please to: sheldon.cooper@.nhs.net


Consultant Nurse WINS Nutrition Award


Tracy Earley, Consultant Nurse in Nutrition at Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, has recently been awarded the British Journal of Nursing award for nutrition for her work in developing the nutrition nurse service in her Trust.


Tracy Earley (centre) receives her Award


Tracy’s winning entry involved changing the focus of care for patients with enteral feeding tubes and home PN from a medically-led referral service, often requiring hospital admission for treatment, to a nutrition nurse-led service in a mainly out- patient/day case setting.


As a result of improvements patients now have


access to: • A rapid access enteral feeding tube service • Intravenous biochemical replacement as a day case procedure


• Assessment and troubleshooting • Direct referral from consultants • An advice telephone service • Widened referral gates once a feeding device is placed.


This has led to: • Patients receiving appropriate treatment more quickly by nurses who are familiar with their condition, as care is provided by the same small


team of nurses. As a result patients are returned home over 98% of the time.


• Freeing up consultant gastroenterologists for more specialist clinical work


• Nurses with the appropriate advanced skills being able to provide high quality care, in placing a variety of feeding tubes, independent of medical teams


• Improved referral process negating the need for patients to wait for a GP or consultant-to- consultant team referral


• Fast track new referrals for assessment • Reduced admissions


In addition, the nutrition nursing team has worked alongside the NHS Institute for Improvement and Innovation to develop a DVD, launched in 2010, for the High Impact Action for nutrition. The Trust was used as a ‘learning site’ and staff were filmed as part of the ‘Essentials Collection’, offering experience and knowledge to other sites.


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