Malnutrition research, policy & practice once again in the spotlight at BAPEN’s ‘Malnutrition Matters’ Conference.

First announcement programme and full registration information now available.

Click here for all current information

**NOTE** Registration fees held at same level as 2007 with early bird discounts available until 30 September.

Guidance Notes and Forms for Hospitals, Mental Health Units and Care Homes now available plus an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) document.

Click here for the NSW 08 download page

Calling all Hospitals, Mental Health Units and Care Homes!

BAPEN needs you to sign up now to take part in BAPEN’s Nutrition Screening Week (NSW08 – 1-3 July).

We have the results and benchmarks on nutrition screening practice and policy from NSW07 – now we need to measure the trends.

And we want to increase the number of participants this year right across the UK.

Register your interest TODAY by emailing the BAPEN office bapen@sovereignconference.co.uk with BAPEN NSW08 in the subject line.

DON’T DELAY – SIGN UP TODAY!

Click here for the NSW08 flyer

Report on the data collected (Sept 07) on nutritional screening of adults on admission to hospitals, care homes and mental health trusts now available.

Click here to see the Report

BAPEN thanks the 370+ reporting centres and our collaborators & supporters

Dates for your diary:

BAPEN's Nutrition Screening Week this year 1-3 July 2008

An opportunity to win £15,000.

View the Award flyer

BAPEN REVEALS THAT 1 in 4 OF ALL ADULTS ACROSS ALL AGE GROUPS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL AND CARE HOMES IN THE UK AT RISK OF MALNUTRITION

• These are the first results released from BAPEN's UK-wide survey on malnutrition on admission to care services (BAPEN NSW 2007)

• Data was collected over three days during BAPEN NSW 2007 on more than 11,600 patients and residents admitted to 372 hospitals, mental health units and care homes in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

"More than 1 in 4 of every single adult admitted for stay in hospital, mental units or care homes is at risk of malnutrition," says Professor Marinos Elia, Chair of BAPEN and joint project lead of NSW at the launch of the results of BAPEN's Nutrition Screening Week (Tuesday 27th November, BAPEN Conference, Harrogate).

Click here to read more

Nutrition Screening Week 2007 Fact sheet

to help Hospital Trusts respond to the Nutrition Action Plan launched yesterday by the Department of Health.

"BAPEN is delighted to be launching today (31st October 2007) its web-based information resource, aptly named OFNoSH, to support Hospital Trusts as they respond to the challenges laid down in the Nutritional Care Action Plan and in the '10 Key Characteristics of Good Nutritional Care in Hospitals'," states Professor Marinos Elia, Chair of BAPEN.

Click here to read the press release

Click here for Organisation of Food and Nutritional Support
in Hospital (OFNoSH)

"Getting the nutrition right for patients in hospital is a bit like getting the fitness levels of a sports team up to scratch - its the sort of thing that can turn the results of a hospital from ordinary to excellent, from loser to winner," says Jeremy Powell-Tuck, Co-Chair of the BAPEN Group which developed OFNoSH.

Click here for the full article

Improving Nutritional Care - a joint Action Plan from the Department of Health and Nutrition Summit stakeholders is published today (30th October 2007).

BAPEN is one of the key stakeholders in the Nutrition Action Plan and welcomes its publication and looks forward to playing its part in its implementation.

"Nutritional Care has reached a 'tipping-point', says Professor Marinos Elia. "It is now a 'MUST have'."

Click here for BAPEN's press release

Click here for the Nutrition Action Plan

Click here for the DH press release

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 2008 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.

A NICE/BAPEN Shared Learning Initiative

Succesful Submission

Further details

Visit the UCL website for full details