BAPEN News
UK Malnutrition Awareness Week 2023
BAPEN is delighted to be joining forces with the Malnutrition Task Force (MTF) once again to run UK Malnutrition Awareness Week 2023 (UKMAW2023), which will take place between 6th – 12th November. Please get involved with the campaign to increase understanding of the dangers, risk factors, and signs of malnutrition and dehydration.
The campaign focus – Ask, Look, Listen – recognises that malnutrition is everyone’s business. It is easier to manage malnutrition or dehydration when it is spotted earlier, so we want everybody in health and care multidisciplinary teams to spread the importance of keeping nutritional care at the forefront of minds, and for people in the community to look out for family members, friends, neighbours, and colleagues.
The daily themes for #UKMAW2023 have been announced, and we encourage you to check out the BAPEN website to find out more, including how you can get involved, either through sharing messaging on social media, championing the daily themes in your work setting, or participating in the National Screening Month throughout November.
Position Statement on Use of GLP-2 Analogues and Other Growth Factors for Adult Patients with Intestinal Failure
The British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA), a Specialist Interest Group of BAPEN, have updated their position statement on use of GLP-2 analogues and other growth factors for adult patients with intestinal failure.
BIFA are now asking for feedback on the position statement. The statement can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/BIFAGLP-2
Please send any comments to: secretary@bapen.org.uk by 24 November 2023.
BAPEN & PINNT Develop New Resource to Optimise Nutritional Care for Patients
Developed by a dedicated Patient Network Development Group including representatives from PINNT, BAPEN and each of BAPEN’s Core Groups, the resource explains nutrition quality standards in a tangible way to support patient understanding around what care they can expect. It covers the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) quality standards for adults who are receiving oral, enteral or parenteral nutrition support, and offers a comprehensive checklist for patients to discuss with their care team.
To access the new patient resource visit the BAPEN website here, or the PINNT website here.
BAPEN Annual Conference 2022 Abstracts Published
We're pleased to share that the abstracts from BAPEN’s Annual Conference 2022 have been published and are now accessible via the Clinical Nutrition ESPEN journal.
Every year, BAPEN invites research papers of high quality in areas of nutrition research to be submitted ahead of our Annual Conference. These submissions are peer reviewed for quality of research, scientific content, and logical presentation. The abstracts of the highest standard are then selected for either oral or poster presentation as part of the Annual Conference.
This selection of research, spanning the wide range of topics, showcases the exemplary work being carried out and acts as a welcome reminder to book your place at the 2023 Annual Conference.
Join us in Edinburgh on 28-29 November to experience the very latest research and hear from experts across a diverse programme of topics. If you haven’t booked your place yet – there is still time! Access the preliminary programme, alongside venue and accommodation information here.
BAPEN Podcasts – Episode 3: Distal Enteral Tube Feeding
In this podcast, Anne Holdoway, former Education Officer for BAPEN, is joined by Kirstine Farrer, Consultant Dietitian in Intestinal failure and Antje Teubner, Associate Specialist in Intestinal Failure and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Antje and Kirstine possess a wealth of clinical experience in clinical nutrition support and in this podcast share their insights and expertise on managing distal enteral feeding in clinical practice.
The podcast covers:
- What we mean by Distal Enteral Tube Feeding (DETF) or Fistuloclysis
- The key benefits of DETF
- Identifying patients who may benefit from DETF and contraindications
- Investigations that may be needed prior to commencing DETF
- Feeds and rates of administration, complete and trophic distal feeding
- Side effects and complications that can arise and how to prevent them.
Further reading:
- Top Tips for Distal Enteral Tube Feeding, Kirstine Farrer, Mia Small, Jeremy Nightingale and the BIFA committee
- Teubner A, Morrison K, Ravishankar HR, et al. Fistuloclysis can successfully replace parenteral feeding in the nutritional support of patients with enterocutaneous fistula. Br J Surg. 2004 May; 91(5): 625-631.
To access the BAPEN Podcasts, visit: www.bapen.org.uk/bapen-podcasts
Have you read the BSPGHAN Strategy 2023-2025?
The strategy incorporates many key areas, including the reduction of carbon footprints, supporting patients, ethnicity and diversity, and ongoing education of the membership.
Read the strategy here: https://bspghan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bspghan-strategy-2023-25.pdf
Join BAPEN's Media Panel
We would really like to build on BAPEN's feature work but in order to do this we are looking for BAPEN Members to join a media panel. The media panel will be a group of volunteers who would be interested/happy to write feature articles/copy for key journals, with support and assistance from BAPEN.
If you would like to get involved, please contact the BAPEN press office: Kirsty Baldry, on 07587175720, via: kirsty.baldry@mandfhealth.com; Georgia Bron, on 07496606611, via: georgia.bron@mandfhealth.com; or email: bapen@mandfhealth.com
Return to top