Core Group Updates BAPEN Medical
RUTH MCKEE Chair – BAPEN Medical
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cing Clinical Nutrition Registered Charity 1023927
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Advancing Clinical Nutrition Registered Charity 1023927
The BAPEN medical committee has been hard at work preparing for the BAPEN Conference 2011.
On Monday 28th November 2011, the BAPEN Medical Teaching Day hopes to ‘demystify parenteral nutrition’, topics include calculating patients’ requirements, new ingredients in PN and facing up to ethical dilemmas in PN.
During the main BAPEN meeting on 29th and 30th November 2011, BAPEN Medical are involved in three symposia covering diverse topics – the management of sarcopaenia; coeliac disease; and nutritional support in some difficult to reach groups. Planning for these symposia is advancing well – watch this space for details. The Powell-Tuck prize for the best medical or
NNNG Update
National Nurses Nutrition Group Registered Charity No: 295411
LIZ EVANS Chair - NNNG
It has been an exciting and challenging time for the NNNG over the past year.
With Trusts looking to save money and resources due to the dire financial situation,
many nutrition nurses have been asked to work on the wards doing clinical shifts, in addition to their ‘day job’. There have been a number of our members who have had their jobs ‘reviewed’ and sadly we have had a couple of casualties. As an organisation we are determined to show that good nutrition needs nurses and aim to continue to promote excellence in nutritional care. We were, therefore, pleased to be asked to comment on the NPSA Patient Safety Alert NPSA/2011/PSA002: Reducing the harm caused by misplaced nasogastric feeding tubes in adults, children and infants which was released in March 2011. This document calls for better training and record keeping around the placing of nasogastric feeding tubes and we were only too pleased to endorse it. It also is supported by the Department of Health which cites misplaces naso or oro-gastric tubes as a Never Event in it’s list for 2011/2012.
The NNNG was also part of an Expert reference group looking at an assessment tool for the CQC Essential Standards of Quality and Safety, Outcome 5, Meeting Nutritional Needs. On a brighter note, we are pleased to announce that our Annual Conference this year will take place on 13/14th June 2011 at the Castlefield Rooms, Manchester. It is our 25th anniversary this year and to celebrate we have a very exciting two days planned as well as the Annual Dinner; the theme this year will be glitz and glamour! If you want to book a place and for full programme details, please visit our website at:
www.nnng.org Finally, we are at last up to full numbers on committee. There have been several changes: Neil Wilson is now Secretary; Carolyn Best is our Comms Officer; Anne Myers is Treasurer; and we welcome Barbara Donaston, Linda Warrinder and Tracy Earley as Committee Members. I am looking forward to working with all of them and hope they enjoy their time on the committee. Kate Pickering, meanwhile, continues to do sterling work on our website and keeps it alive and vibrant.
surgical trainee abstract submitted to BAPEN will be awarded again this year. The deadline for abstracts is 4th July – don’t miss it! The submitter of the best abstract will be awarded the prize, but trainees submitting the 2nd to 6th scoring abstracts will be awarded sponsored places for the BAPEN Medical meeting. So start preparing your abstract now – see the What’s New section for further details.
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BAPEN In Touch No.61 May 2011
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