Welcome A message from BAPEN’s Chairman...


Contents... Welcome


What’s New Pan-London Meeting


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Communication Update 5 PEN Group Course BAPEN at DDF Diary Dates


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BAPEN Meeting


Core Group Updates BAPEN Contacts


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DR TIM BOWLING Honorary Chairman


I am writing this report the week after the DDF meeting in Liverpool. It was a big, busy and successful meeting with over 3500 delegates, of which 350 were BAPEN members. Within DDF, BAPEN held its annual conference, as did the three other participating national societies, BSG, AUGIS (Association of Upper GI Surgeons) and BASL (British Association for the Study of the Liver). The


BAPEN programme, put together by Pete Turner and his Programmes committee, was outstanding and it was very gratifying that there was considerable interest from non-BAPEN delegates, as our auditorium, with a capacity of 400, was invariably full. I am sure that there was equal benefit for BAPEN members attending other symposia that would not normally have been on offer at our stand-alone conferences. The overall size of the meeting also meant that the plenary sessions shared between the four organisations were very impressive and attracted eminent national and international speakers. It was my perception that this was a very good meeting, and a more detailed conference report follows later in this issue. However, now I need to make a request for help. Despite very energetic efforts at advertising DDF


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 trainin g.


• 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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Printed version: ISSN 1479-3806. On-line version: ISSN 1479-3814. All contents and correspondence are published at the discretion of the editors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BAPEN. The editors reserve the right to amend or reject all material received. No reproduction of material published within the newsletter is permitted without written permission from the editors. BAPEN accepts no liability arising out of or in connection with the newsletter.


This issue’s highlights… A review of the recent 6th Annual Pan-London Regional BAPEN Meeting can be found on page 4. The PEN Group provide an insight into their PEN Group Clinical Update Course 2012 on page 6. Read the highlights from BAPEN at the Digestive Disorders Federation (DDF) Conference 2012 on page 7. If you didn’t manage to get to Liverpool for the DDF, then make sure you don’t miss the next BAPEN meeting – “Delivering Excellence in Clinical Nutrition” – see page 11 for further details. Plus, BAPEN update you on their communication activities on page 5, and the latest from the Core Groups can be found on page 13.


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for many months and making particular mention of the very cheap registration rates for non-medics, there were only 350 BAPEN members who attended. In our normal conferences we typically get up to 500 delegates. It was interesting that delegate numbers for all the four groups were down from normal conference attendance. The provisional plan is that the DDF format will be repeated in 2015 and perhaps three-yearly thereafter. As I write this, we have still to get the bottom line in terms of the financial outcome of the meeting and, clearly, this will influence decision making for future participation. However, we also need to hear from those of you who attended on what you thought about the meeting, and whether you felt that the DDF format worked. Importantly, though, we also need to hear from members who did not attend as to why they stayed away. By the time you read this a questionnaire will have been sent out. Our annual conference is BAPEN’s single most important activity, and for many members the only point of interaction and participation in the year. It is, therefore, vital that we get our conferences right for everyone’s benefit, so I cannot stress how important it is that we hear your views. If you haven’t already, please take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire. Now that DDF is done, when can we next see you? BAPEN is holding a two-day meeting on 3rd –


4th December 2012 in Staffordshire (see page 11 for further information). This is to launch our new BAPEN Principles of Good Nutritional Practice Guidance Documents; to launch the over-arching document of the four Nutrition Screening Weeks (which will be a seminal production); and for the Nutrition Society to launch a new textbook on clinical nutrition. There will also be educational programmes from BAPEN Medical, PEN Group and BSPGHAN, along with some satellite symposia. Although original work won’t be presented, there should be plenty of interest and education for everyone. It will also, as always, be a great opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues. So for those of you who missed DDF, this is your chance to make amends. Of course, for those of you who didn’t miss DDF, it would be great to see you as well. Before I sign off, I do hope that you have all been able to visit our new website, which is a huge


improvement on our last one. Much credit goes to Nicki Simmonds, who has worked many long hours on this, and we are all indebted to her. There is still room for improvement, so please do not hesitate to pass on any suggestions or comments, positive or negative, so that we can make this, our window to the outside world, one that we can be proud of. I bid you all a happy summer, and hope you manage to find some sunshine somewhere!


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