Core Group Updates NNNG Update
LIZ EVANS Chair - NNNG
It has been a very busy and eventful year this year. We have had a huge change around in the committee.
We first of all said goodbye and thanks to Jane Fletcher who stepped down as
Secretary in January after doing a fantastic job. Neil Wilson took over her role and Carolyn Best took on the role of Comms Officer. We welcomed Barbara Donvaston from
Birmingham’s Heart of England Trust, Linda Warrinder from Darlington, and Tracy Earley from Preston on to the committee. We now feel that we have a good mix of expertise across hospital and community services, oral and clinical nutritional care, and look forward to working cohesively to move the NNNG forward.
Now that we are a full committee at last, we will be looking at sharing and strengthening roles and responsibilities within the team as the workload for the committee to increases due to the NNNG being asked to comment on and be involved in initiatives nationally.
The work we have been involved with this year includes: • Contributing to the Expert Reference Group that advised on the tool kit for the assessors
to use in CQC Outcome Five – Meeting Nutritional Needs.
• Being on the editorial board for the Nutritional supplement of the British Journal of Community Nursing. Neil Wilson has taken on this role.
• Contributing and reviewing articles for the hydration and nutrition supplement of the Nursing Times and writing articles for the Nursing Standard and Complete Nutrition journals.
• Participating in the judging of the Nutrition Category for the British Journal of Nursing awards. This category was won by Tracy Earley and her team.
• Being part of the steering group for the RCN’s campaign to improve the care of the patient with dementia where we will use our expertise to discuss the ethical and practical issues regarding appropriate provision of nutritional care to this group of patients. However, the highlight of the year thus far has to be our Annual Conference. We congregated at the Castleford Rooms in Manchester on 13th June for two days that were jam-packed with education, chat, networking
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and a lot of fun. I would like to thank the committee for all of their hard work, the speakers for all of their fantastic talks and presentations, the Castlefield Rooms for their hospitality and industry for their support. However, the biggest thanks have to go to our members and the delegates without whom the event would not have been such a resounding success. We were worried that in this climate, people would not necessarily want a two-day conference next year, however, all the evaluations came back with the resounding message which was: “See you next year!” So an early date for your diaries – we will be returning to the Castlefield Rooms next year on 29th and 30th October 2012. See you there!
PEN Group KATE HALL
Communications Officer – PEN Group It has been a busy time over the past couple of months for the PEN Group:
• The latest edition of PENlines is now available to all PEN Group members on the PEN Group website members section
www.peng.org.uk
• PEN Group have a new email address (
peng@bda.uk.com) for members to contact the committee directly and this will also allow members to communicate with fellow PEN Group members through this route - more information will be circulated to members soon.
• PEN Group Award deadline has been extended to allow people more time to enter and the Award will now be awarded at the Annual PEN Group meeting at BAPEN - deadline is Friday September 30th 2011, please see page 2 for more detail.
• PEN Group Annual meeting originally due to be held in August has been postponed to allow us to fully launch the new updated
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sections of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition, and for members to hear directly from the authors, plus have the opportunity to ask them questions. The Annual meeting will now be held on 28th November in Harrogate, the day before the main BAPEN conference, which is really exciting for the PEN Group because it will give us a strong presence at BAPEN. Look out for more details which will follow very soon by going to
www.peng.org.uk
• The specialist dietetic interest groups came together at this year's BDA conference in May to deliver workshops on outcome reporting. Led by specialists in their field the aim of the workshops was to populate the BDA Dietetic Outcomes Toolkit (
www.bda.uk.com) in all areas of practice, with some of the outcome measures being achieved through multi-disciplinary
working. The session which was jointly chaired by the PEN Group and Nutrition Advisory Group for the Elderly (NAGE) was entitled ‘Outcomes in nutritional interventions’ which addressed the evidence to support the use of dietary advice and oral nutritional supplements in older people at risk of malnutrition, and the outcomes dietitians could measure in clinical practice and research. It discussed the challenges dietitians face when selecting appropriate outcome measures and the selection of tools to measure. If you would like to know more information about this session please email:
peng@bda.uk.com
Reminder - have you renewed your PEN Group membership and if not to go to the PEN Group website:
www.peng.org.uk
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