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DR TIM BOWLING Honorary Chairman
We have just had a marvellous conference in Harrogate enjoyed (I hope!) by the 630 or so who were able to attend, despite the rigours of the financial climate and the general strike. I took over as BAPEN Chairman from Dr Mike Stroud and would, therefore, like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me. I am a Gastroenterologist in Nottingham and have been a Consultant since 1996, working initially in Stoke before moving to my current job in 2003. I am the Medical Lead for the Clinical Nutrition Service, including a nine-bedded Intestinal Failure Unit and a large HPN Service (currently 60 patients – and growing rapidly, as seems to be the case everywhere). I have been Chairman of BAPEN Medical 2006- 2007, Secretary of BAPEN 2007-2010 and Chair-Elect for the last 12 months.
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Advancing Clinical Nutrition Registered Charity 1023927
BAPEN
Advancing Clinical Nutrition Registered Charity 1023927
British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
BAPEN is a Registered Charity No: 1023927
A multi-professional association and registered charity established in 1992. Its membership is drawn from doctors, dietitians, nutritionists, nurses, patients, pharmacists, and from the health policy, industry, public health and research sectors.
Principal Functions:
• Enhance understanding and management of malnutrition.
• Establish a clinical governance framework to underpin the nutrition management of all patients.
• Enhance knowledge and skills in clinical nutrition through education and training.
• Communicate the benefits of clinical and cost-effective optimal nutritional care to all healthcare professionals, policy makers and the public.
• Fund a multi-professional research programme to enhance understanding of malnutrition and its treatment.
In Touch – The Newsletter of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
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First of all, I would like to convey my thanks and appreciation on behalf of the Association to Mike Stroud for his three years tenure. He has worked incredibly hard to further BAPEN’s position as a key opinion leader in all matters relating to undernutrition, screening and nutritional support. There are many challenges that face BAPEN. I have three key ambitions for my three years in post. The first is to refocus on our membership. Membership has been constant in recent years, and we need to consider why this hasn’t significantly increased with the rising profile of nutrition. Clearly, the marketing of BAPEN and the membership incentives offered require our focus to persuade new members to join and existing members to renew. We also need to consider how we might broaden our membership. Traditionally, BAPEN has focused primarily on healthcare professionals dealing with nutritional support in the hospital setting. With BAPEN’s increasing focus on screening, we need to consider colleagues in the community setting. There is also much that we could offer those in other specialty areas, such as oncology, critical care, healthcare of the elderly and so on. We, therefore, need to consider how to preserve our current membership, to better incentivise our traditional target groups to get a better sign-up, and also to look to other groups and consider what their needs are and how BAPEN can meet them. We are setting up a working group to consider all these matters, and I hope to be able to report progress later on in the year.
My second focus is to make BAPEN and its structure and communications fit for purpose
for 2012 and beyond as we face new challenges. Currently, we have an overly complex committee structure with inadequate streams of communication. As a result, many groups work in their own silos with others (and our members) often entirely unaware of what is being done. I also recognise the need to improve the website as this is our window to the outside world, and I think the outside world could be forgiven for not realising the full extent of our work as much of it is well hidden on our current site. There is much work going on behind the scenes to substantially improve this. Finally, to coordinate communications, we have just appointed a new media and communications company, Helen Lawn and Associates, who will be taking forward much of the work required to optimise our internal functionality and also our external communications. I am pleased to report that Rhonda Smith will be continuing to work with BAPEN to develop our political and partnership priorities.
My third focus is to continue the momentum, initiated primarily by Professor Marinos Elia during his Chairmanship and continued by Mike Stroud, in terms of BAPEN’s standing as a respected authority in all matters relating to undernutrition and screening. We already have the ears of leading figures in the NHS and Parliament, but such standing and influence can never be assumed to prevail and we will need to keep plugging away both in terms of initiating proposals and also in immersing ourselves in collaborative associations with others. I feel tremendously privileged to be Chairman of BAPEN. It offers a great challenge and the opportunity to work with many different people, and I am looking forward to the challenge.
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