Core Group Updates BAPEN Medical RUTH MCKEE Chair BAPEN Medical


We are running a taught course on Nutritional Support at the Association of Surgeons meeting in Liverpool on Thursday 10th May. This aims to cover the essentials of nutritional support in surgical patients and will include the aspects of nutrition from the GI surgery syllabus. Please let your local surgeons know about this!


BAPEN Medical Teaching Day will take place on Sunday 17th June at the DDF meeting, also in Liverpool. The topic is


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Nutrition and Liver Disease, and includes a variety of topics from nutritional assessment to management of NAFLD and nutritional management of both stable and unstable liver disease patients.


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BAPEN Medical has a combined meeting


with the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland on Thursday 15th November at Cameron House, Loch Lomond. Chronic pancreatitis is one of the major topics to be addressed, but nutritional support in the


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perioperative period in pancreatic cancer will also be discussed and the difficult problem of maintaining nutrition in severe pancreatitis. We welcome Jamil Aqeel to the committee of BAPEN Medical. The committee met at the end of February where we discussed e- learning to cover nutrition in the gastroenterology syllabus. The abstracts for the Powell Tuck prize have been submitted and are currently being scored. Plan ahead to enter next year.


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PEN Group – supporting excellence in nutritional care KATE HALL


Communications Officer PEN Group peng@bda.uk.com, www.peng.org.uk


Membership: March 2012 has come around very quickly! We are now into the 2012/13 PEN Group membership year and it is time for all members to renew their membership and for us to welcome any new members for this new year. PEN Group membership renewal or annual subscription remain unchanged this year £20 inc. VAT. The benefits of becoming a member of PEN Group include: • Subsidised rates at the PEN Group meetings • Subsidised rate for the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition


• Clinical meetings at reduced price for members


• Reduced cost of BAPEN membership, plus dietetic representation at BAPEN


• Min 2 copies per year of PENlines – electronic update


• Abstracts from meetings and clinical reviews • Access to the PEN Group membership section of the website www.peng.org.uk – currently being updated to make it more interactive for members and meet members needs


• Facility to ask fellow PEN Group members their best practice or advice through the membership email address


• CPD opportunity to serve on the committee or work on individual projects for BAPEN / the dietetic profession


For dietitians to become a new PEN Group member or renew membership please go to the PEN Group website www.peng.org.uk or contact the committee peng@bda.uk.com – new membership year begins March 2012.


PEN Group website: New for 2012 will be areas within the member's section of the PEN Group website such as a dietetic outcomes project – alluded to at our November 2011 PEN Group meeting. Look out for more news on this project in the coming months. We are also in the process of setting up a best practice forum on the member's section of the PEN Group website so member's need to keep a watchful eye over the coming months. In the meantime please email us with any examples or case studies at peng@bda.uk.com.


A new voting system has been set up on the member's section of the PEN Group website. Voting is currently on topics to focus on in articles for Dietetics Today. Each month we hope to change the voting theme with the aim of keeping in touch with PEN Group member's needs and views.


Dietetics Today: PEN Group are pleased to be covering some dietetic articles in this year's Dietetics Today (DT), this is a great opportunity for us to showcase some of the work that members are involved in and focus specifically on topics that are of particular interest to PEN Group members – if you would like to contribute or have some suggestions for topics please contact us at peng@bda.uk.com. The first contribution to Dietetics Today is entitled 'Nutritional Support - 360 degree journey' and will be in the March edition of DT.


Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition: New edition (4th) now available to order through the PEN Group website www.peng.org.uk.


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BAPEN In Touch No.64 March 2012


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