BAPEN

BPNG

Website - www.bpng.co.uk

BPNG aims to support its members by providing:

• Networking with peers in your speciality
• Opportunities to compare ideas and exchange information with others
• Access to international leaders in the field
• Opportunities to meet suppliers/manufacturers in a non-commercial forum
• Regular publications including twice yearly issues of the group newsletter 'Feeding Times' and periodic policy documents
• A forum to present research/audit/case studies and ideas
• Regular education events including our Fundamentals to Parenteral Nutrition Course – a beginners course for all health professionals

BPNG has produced a number of publications including:

• A position statement on Multi-Chambered Bags
• A Competency Framework for pharmacists working within Clinical Nutrition
• Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes
• Information resource on Administration of drugs via enteral feeding tubes
• Patient Information Leaflet for PN

More information is available on the BPNG website

Committee members:

• Jackie Eastwood (Chairman)
• Ruth Newton (Vice Chairman)
• Dilusha Ghosh (Honorary Secretary)
• Dr Richard Smith (Honorary Treasurer)
• Peter Austin (Education Officer)
• Tony Murphy(Co-Ordinating Officer)
• Dr Allan Cosslett /Lucy Thompson/Dr Rebecca Price-Davies (Communications Officer)
• Venetia Horn (Development Officer – Paediatric)
• Rebecca White (Development Officer – Adult)
• Christina Wong (Research & Science Officer)
• Professor Mike Allwood (Co-opted Member)
• Sarah Zeraschi (Co-opted Member)