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DR TIM BOWLING Honorary Chairman
The topic of this article is ‘conference’, and I will detail our forthcoming meeting in December and giving you some feedback from the DDF (Digestive Disorders Federation) meeting that took place in Liverpool in June. This issue of In Touch will arrive with you a couple of weeks before the BAPEN meeting in Stone, Staffordshire on 3rd – 4th December. This meeting
will not be in the format of a full conference, in that there will not be any original work presented or the various prize lectures, such as the Cuthbertson Medal. However, it will be a meeting of great interest and tremendous educational value. There will be: • The launch of the first of our Decision Trees. These have been in preparation a long time, and are essentially guidance algorithms for nutritional support. Under the leadership of Sheldon Cooper and the Education and Training Committee, all aspects of nutrition support have been broken down into bite-size pieces, for example, unblocking an NG tube, ethics, perioperative nutritional support, management of buried bumper, and so on. The Decision Trees are then suggested succinct management plans to assist those of you at the coal face of clinical care. There will be some key references and links to important supporting documentation, e.g. NICE guidance, NPSA reports. In time, we intend to have a full library of these both in paper and electronic format and free for BAPEN members. So our December meeting is the first opportunity to see these in action in lecture and workshop formats.
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
Cost per issue: £2.00 to non members
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.
• The release of the first results from the over-arching Nutrition Screening Week (NSW) report. All four NSW’s have been completed, with each individually written up. However, the seminal work will be the synthesis of all of these. Professor Marinos Elia and Mrs Christine Russell, the lead authors, will be presenting some highlights of the data.
• Postgraduate educational sessions from PENG, BAPEN Medical and BSPGHAN (our paediatric colleagues).
• Satellite Industry symposia • A half-day on matters relating to commissioning of nutritional services, aimed at both clinicians and managers/commissioners. This will be of particular interest to those who are trying to establish new or better services locally, but perhaps not finding the ride very smooth. In addition to the programme itself, the conference centre is in the countryside, so registration
includes accommodation for those coming for both days, and will include an evening meal, disco and a pub quiz convened by our master of ceremonies Pete Turner – all aimed at being a very low-key, enjoyable and informal evening. I hope this descriptive gives you enough of a taster to fire your interest and bring you along to the meeting, especially those of you who missed out on DDF. This brings me neatly on to DDF. This was a huge meeting with over 3000 delegates. It was hosted
by four organisations: BAPEN, the British Society of Gastroenterology, the British Association for the Study of Liver Disease and the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons. From a logistical and financial point of view it was a great success, and BAPEN’s concern of losing money fortunately did not materialise. From the point of view of delegate satisfaction, from the feedback received overall it worked very well. The opportunity to be part of a bigger DDF, have made available a much broader diversity of topics and to be able to dip in and out of all the various symposia was much appreciated. Feedback put BAPEN as the primary recipient of the most ‘cross-trade’ from the other Organisations, with delegates clearly finding nutritional matters of significant relevance. Some felt the meeting was too big, especially BAPEN members used to the ‘coziness’ of Harrogate. However, meetings of such size are now commonplace in Europe and the US and perhaps a format that we will all have to get used to. There were also issues relating to the rooms BAPEN was allocated, which perhaps were not ideal in some respects. As always there were negative comments about catering – I have yet to go to any meeting where this isn’t the case! DDF was the first meeting of its kind in the UK and those of us involved in its organisation were
literally making it up as we went along. There is no doubt that if it is repeated there will be changes and improvements to be made on the back of the experiences gained from this 2012 meeting. The plan is to repeat DDF in 2015 and 2018, and the conference centre adjacent to Excel in London has already been reserved. Council has still to make a definite decision on our intentions, and I will of course keep you updated. I hope to see many of you in December.
1 BAPEN In Touch No.67 November 2012
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