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Powell-Tuck Prize 2012
Following the first combined BAPEN, BSG, AUGIS and BASL conference at DDF 2012, BAPEN Medical wishes to announce the winner and runners-up of the Powell-Tuck prize.
This is the third year of awarding this prestigious prize, named in honour of the founder of BAPEN Medical, Professor Jeremy Powell-Tuck. This year we had the greatest number of entries for consideration of the prize, and standards were high.
The runners-up are Dr Lim, for the abstract entitled ‘Regular nutritional blood monitoring in
children on home enteral tube feeding – is this necessary?’, and Mr Vaughan-Shaw for the abstract ‘Peripheral oedema is associated with poor outcomes following emergency abdominal surgery’.
Congratulations go to the winner of the
Powell-Tuck prize 2012, Dr M Dibb, who presented at the BAPEN Medical symposium: ‘Outcomes of
Home Parenteral Nutrition: 30 years experience from a national centre’.
We look forward to running this prize for the
next BAPEN Annual Conference in 2013. The December meeting in 2012 will not be attracting abstract submissions, but should be a very educational and rewarding programme.
Pan-London Meeting Pan-London Regional
BAPEN Meeting 2012 Tuesday 15th May 2012 • King’s College London, Waterloo Campus
On a cold, wet and windy Tuesday afternoon in May more than 50 delegates gathered for the 6th Annual Pan-London Regional BAPEN Meeting, held in the Franklin Building at King's College London. The delegates enjoyed a range of presentations, updates and debate from a world-class panel of speakers.
The meeting was kick-started by Katie Keetarut, Senior IBD Dietitian at University College Hospital (UCH), who presented an overview of LOFFLEX and FODMAP diets in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) respectively. Katie also presented a review of her own data and a proposed pathway for IBS patients being initiated at UCH. There was a wealth of experience amongst dietitians present which allowed for some healthy debate and knowledge sharing. We were then treated to a clinical update from Tom Shepherd, Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology, currently working at the Royal Free Hospital, who presented an evidence-based overview of the acute management of short bowel syndrome patients; a clinical challenge faced by many of the audience. Unfortunately, due to ill health, our patient representative was unable to attend and present their own experience. However, North London Regional Representative Andrew Rochford (Barts Health) presented a case recently published in Frontline Gastroenterology. The delegates were given an opportunity to interact with a panel of clinical experts – Simon Gabe (St Mark's), Michael Glynn (Barts Health), and Sarah Zeraschi (Basildon & Thurrock) – who were put through their paces by the charismatic Chair of the session, David Gertner (Basildon & Thurrock). The feedback from
this session was extremely positive and the opportunity to have a facilitated discussion with such an experienced panel of experts is recognised as one of the strengths of our regional meetings. Following refreshments, we were inspired by
the work of Andrea Cartwright, recently appointed a Nurse Consultant at Basildon & Thurrock, and her team. Their ‘Nutrition Mission’ is transforming standards of basic ward nutrition in secondary care and is being incorporated into NHS Midlands and East Ambition 1 to eliminate all grade 2, 3 and 4 pressure ulcers by December 2012, as part of the cluster-wide nutrition strategy to improve nutrition and hydration care. Delegates were then provided with an update on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) commissioning by Mia Small, Nurse Consultant at St Mark’s. There has been much discussion surrounding the HIFNET proposals in our regional meetings, with a growing number of delegates being involved in the management of HPN patients. The presentation was timely given the specialist commissioning group applications in June. In the final session, Liz Weekes (Guys & St Thomas) highlighted the lack of robust evidence surrounding oral nutritional supplements in the community. She is leading a community-based project to improve ONS prescribing in South London; before long we may all be ‘doing it the Lambeth way’!
Our keynote presentation this year was given
by Jason Beyers, Lead Dietitian for Paediatric Small Bowel Transplantation on behalf of the transplant team at King’s College Hospital (KCH), and chaired by Professor Alastair Forbes from University College Hospital. The transplant programme at King’s started in 2009 and has undertaken nine transplants (almost 10% of UK total) during that time with a survival of rate of 88%. The audience, who predominantly worked with adult patients, was particularly interested to hear that the indications for paediatric and adult transplantation remain similar although the underlying aetiology is often different. Furthermore, as the paediatric transplant programme grows and survival improves we are beginning to see patients who need transitional care. We are very grateful for the support offered
by our sponsors (Abbott, Braun, Bupa, Fresenius- Kabi, Inspiration, Nutricia & Vygon) and the committee would very much like to thank all our speakers. We look forward to seeing everyone again at next year’s event – be sure to look out for the details in forthcoming editions of In Touch. For more information or to get involved in our
regional meetings please do not hesitate to contact Sheena
Visram (Secretary,
sheena_visram@hotmail.com) or Andrew Rochford (Regional Rep,
andrewrochford@nhs.net).
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