2024 Annual BAPEN Conference

BAPEN would like to invite you to join us in Gateshead for the 2024 Annual Conference.

This year our Programme Lead once again is Pete Turner from Northern Ireland, who alongside our programme planning committee of experts, have produced a diverse programme of broad topics so that there is truly something for everyone! Click here to view the outline programme. Highlights include:

• Intestinal failure
• Nutrition in older people
• Management of eating disorders on general wards
• Oral and enteral nutrition in palliative care
• Management of peripheral PN
• Complications of home parenteral support
• Sustainability in nutrition support
• Nutritional management of Type 1 intestinal failure
• National Nurses Nutrition Group Symposium.

The Conference will see the launch of BAPEN's Position Statement on Electrolyte and Vitamin Replacement in Patients with Severe Malnutrition, including those with eating disorders and other related conditions – a must for everyone working with patients at risk of refeeding problems.

There will be a keynote lecture by Professor Kevin Whelan on ultra-processed foods and gastrointestinal disease that promises to unpick the implications for clinical practice of this highly publicised topic.

We are also pleased to welcome back the Nutrition Village where we will have a programme of 40 minute talks focusing on specific themes, including: Enhanced role of the dietitian, Innovation in enteral nutrition such as electromagnetic placement of NJ tubes, and Managing and unblocking PN lines.

All sessions are interspersed with Industry symposia throughout the Conference, so do take the opportunity of joining the talks and visiting our industry stands in the main exhibition area. These features, coupled with the poster walks, give the invaluable opportunity to network with colleagues from the UK and beyond – a highlight you just don’t get with virtual conferences and webinars.

The Annual Dinner will provide some light relief, a chance to catch up with colleagues and an opportunity to meet key figures in clinical nutrition. A closing plenary session featuring Professor Mike Stroud and Dr Anne Holdoway, among others, will seek the audience’s help in answering the question: ‘Is protein overrated?’

We hope we have whetted your appetite by giving you a taste of what’s on the menu for this year’s Conference. Of course we wouldn’t have a Conference without the support of our industry partners, programmes committee, and all those who contribute to making this meeting successful.

We very much look forward to seeing you in Gateshead!