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 June 2009 BAPEN learns the language of commissioning
May 2009
April 2009 BAPEN 2009 Annual Conference information
February 2009 BAPEN now estimates the cost of malnutrition in the UK as £13 billion
January 2009
Improving Nutritional Care and Treatment: Perspectives and Recommendations from Population Groups, Patients and Carers Published by BAPEN
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BAPEN activities BAPEN Awards - Roll of Honour 2009 Have you given a lot to BAPEN in 2008/9, or do you know a colleague who has? Any BAPEN member can be nominated for the Roll of Honour. We are very keen to reward the “unsung heroes” who work hard behind the scenes, but do not necessarily get any glory, eg Regional Reps.
If you would like to nominate either yourself or a colleague, please e mail the BAPEN Office (bapen@sovereignconference.co.uk), who will send you a nomination form to return either electronically or by fax.
Deadline: August 31st 2009.
The Rolls of Honour will be awarded at the Annual Conference in Cardiff in October 2009.
Learn the Language of Commissioning at the BAPEN Conference Andrew Bibby from the DH/NHS National Specialised Commissioning Team and experienced commissioner Joe Rafferty, Chief Executive of Central Lancashire PCT are key speakers at the BAPEN symposium focused on Commissioning on Wednesday 14th October in Cardiff. The aim? To enable clinicians and all healthcare professionals to learn the language of Commissioning and work effectively in partnership with commissioners to deliver quality nutritional services across all settings.
Click here to read the Media release Click here for full Conference details Don’t forget to submit your Abstract! Deadline 29th June 2009 – Early bird registrations close 31st July 2009.
BAPEN’s second Nutrition Screening Week Report (NSW08) Key points • Many hospitals, care homes and mental health units not calibrating scales for weighing regularly in contravention of a DH alert • Prevalence of malnutrition on admission to hospital, care homes and mental health units reconfirmed as affecting 1 in 4 of all adults of all ages • Not all care settings ‘handing on’ information on malnutrition risk when individuals move from one care setting to another
BAPEN thanks the 222 reporting centres which contributed to this Report covering the summer period. BAPEN’s next Screening Week to cover winter is being organised for 12-14 January 2010. Save the dates! Reporters receive their data back so local information can be benchmarked against the national picture on ‘malnutrition’ and nutritional care policy and practice.
BAPEN also thanks the RCN and BDA together with the NPSA and government departments across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for their continuing support of this initiative.
All four seasons will eventually be covered by BAPEN’s Screening Weeks (final NSW to be organised in spring 2011) after which the data collected across all seasons will be compared thus providing a fuller picture on ‘malnutrition’ in the UK.
Click here to freely download a full copy of BAPEN’s NSW08 Report 1 in 8 tenants in sheltered housing at risk of malnutrition reveals new Report from GNASH led by BAPEN
At the launch of the GNASH Report in the House of Commons from left – Tracey Elliott, Richmond Housing Partnership, Sue Ullmann, Chair, National Association of Care Catering, Christine Russell, BAPEN, Alia Shakouri, Westminster Community Services, Professor Marinos Elia, BAPEN, Imogen Parry, ERoSH, Dr Rebecca Stratton, Nutricia.
A new Report from GNASH (Group on Nutrition and Sheltered Housing) led by BAPEN has established that 14% (c 1 in 8) of tenants in sheltered housing in England are at risk of malnutrition, with 9% at high risk. The GNASH Report – Screening for Malnutrition in Sheltered Housing - was launched on Tuesday 12 May 2009 at the House of Commons at a Reception hosted by Paul Burstow MP.
Professor Marinos Elia, Chair of GNASH and of BAPEN’s Malnutrition Action Group states: “The findings from GNASH confirm that malnutrition is common in this population group and re-confirms that most malnutrition starts in the community – where it needs to be addressed.”
To provide support in addressing the issue, GNASH has collaborated with CSHS to produce a Good Practice Guide for Scheme Managers in Sheltered Housing, Addressing Malnutrition. Further information at www.cornwall.ac.uk/cshs/
Click here to download the Executive Summary of the Click here to order your printed copy of the full GNASH Report Click here for the Media Release on the GNASH Report Members of GNASH are - BAPEN, ERoSH (Essential Role of Sheltered Housing), NACC (National Association of Care Catering), Nutricia (UK) Ltd, Accent Group, Central Westminster Community Care Services, Harrogate Neighbours, Richmond Housing Partnership and Westminster Housing & Care. In addition, Home Group and Invicta participated in the project.
BAPEN takes its campaign to Wales, challenging the home nations to scrum down and give a big push to reduce the malnutrition that exists in so many UK care settings.
Programme includes: • The Six Nations Replay – Tackling malnutrition at home and abroad: news from England, Wales, Scotland, N Ireland and Europe • Under-nutrition and Nutritional Support in the Community • Salt and Water: new consensus guidelines for patient treatment • ‘Whose fault was it anyway?’ – Competencies, training and patient safety • Managing nutritional care in over-weight and vulnerable patients • Bariatric surgery and metabolic consequences • Interaction between drugs and nutrition: positives and negatives • BAPEN’s got talent: the nutritional X-factor!
First announcement programme and full registration information now available.
BAPEN publishes new cost of malnutrition and recommendations for action £13 billion estimated as current cost of malnutrition – 3 million of all ages affected at any time with 93% living in the community
A new BAPEN report, Combating Malnutrition: Recommendations for Action, is the culmination of work undertaken by a group of experts in malnutrition, led by BAPEN. Launched in Parliament on 10 February 2009, it sets out how the vast majority of those at risk of the condition are living in the community – and not in care homes and hospitals, where the focus of Government action has been to date. It also sets out how the disproportionate burden of malnutrition in deprived areas exacerbates health inequalities. The report puts forward 25 actions that the Government needs to lead in order to reduce both the cost of the condition to the taxpayer, and the number of those at risk.
Commenting, Professor Marinos Elia, Chair of the Advisory Group on Malnutrition which worked on the report, and immediate past Chair of BAPEN, said: “The evidence is clear and the time is right. Improving the nutritional status of all in the community as well as in hospital and care influences health outcomes and quality of life. The policy and regulation frameworks are in place into which many measures to combat malnutrition can be easily slotted. Government and the NHS together with the social care, housing and community sectors must now press forward with embedding nutritional care and treatment into daily practice to combat malnutrition where it starts – in the community.”
Click here for a copy of the Executive Summary of Combating Malnutrition
Click here for a copy of the Media Release Copies of the Combating Malnutrition report is available to purchase online at £20 plus £2 post & packing.
Now published! A new Report from BAPEN in collaboration with 18 partners from the voluntary sector Improving Nutritional Care and Treatment: Perspectives and Recommendations from Population Groups, Patients and Carers
“Malnutrition is common, often unrecognised and remains untreated” As part of its on-going ‘Malnutrition Matters’ campaign and its work with the Department of Health’s Nutrition Action Plan, BAPEN convened a meeting in Summer 2008 attended by 18 charitable organisations representing a wide spectrum of population and patient groups (adults and children) concerned about and committed to improving access to and delivery of nutrition information, care and support provided to the population group they represent. This Report is the consensus of that discussion.
BAPEN thanks all participating organisations for the time they have devoted to this project and to their commitment to the cause of improving nutritional care and treatment. BAPEN looks forward to meeting all organisations again later this year to discuss progress on this important topic.
Click here for the Report Summary
Printed copies of the Report are available from the BAPEN Office at £20 plus £2 post & packing click here to order and pay online
Click here for the Media Release Click here for quotes from charities and voluntary groups that participated in the meeting
The third Southern Region BAPEN Nutrition Day *THIS MEETING IS NOW FULLY BOOKED*
‘Practical Nutrition Support’
Click for the latest provisional programme and BAPEN and Southampton University Hospitals Trust win IT Innovation Award BAPEN and Southampton University Hospitals Trust win IT Innovation Award at the Health Business Awards 2008 for leading and developing MUST, making it freely available online and licensing it for NHS use through Connecting for Health.
The winning BAPEN team at the Health Business Awards 2008 collecting their award from media GP Dr Hilary Jones (third from left) and Phil Birchall (far right), Director of Healthcare Business Development from sponsor InterSystems. BAPEN was represented by (from left) Professor Marinos Elia, Dr Irene Elia, Vera Todorovic and Christine Russell.
BAPEN’s ‘Malnutrition Matters’ campaign wins major MNI, the Medical Nutrition International Industry group in partnership with ESPEN has awarded its first ever prize worth €30,000 for raising awareness of and fighting malnutrition to BAPEN! Professor Marinos Elia, Chair of BAPEN, accepted the award on behalf of the charity at the ESPEN Conference (Florence, 15 September 2008) from Flemming Morgan Chairman of MNI Executive and President of Danone’s Medical Nutrition Division.
View and download BAPEN’s award-winning poster here
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A NICE/BAPEN Shared Learning Initiative - your experience counts! Have you had experience of implementing guidelines for nutrition such as NICE? Are you able to share that experience - whether successful or challenging? Have you a few moments to submit a short summary for consideration for BAPEN 2009 and the BAPEN website? Your professional colleagues will love to learn from your experience and BAPEN will provide the platform to disseminate that experience.
As well as being uploaded on to the BAPEN website and discussed at BAPEN Conference, successful summaries will also be forwarded to NICE for consideration for their website. Click the link below for full details. The deadlines for the applications are 30th June 2007, and 28th February and 30th June on subsequent years.
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BAPEN 2009 ‘Malnutrition Matters’ Conference
