BAPEN News

 

British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA) Publish Recommendation on the Management of Catheter Related Blood Stream Infections (CRBSIs)

The document aims to provide the UK standard for the management of CRSBI in patients receiving parenteral support (PS; includes parenteral nutrition and/or fluids).

The document has been produced for adult patients but the principles may be appropriate for children.

To read the document, click here.

 

BAPEN Response to the EAC's Call for a Minister for Hunger Role

BAPEN strongly supports the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) recommendation to appoint a dedicated Minister for Hunger.

The cross-party committee, chaired by Mary Creagh MP, has called on the Government to set “clear UK-wide targets” and appoint a dedicated minister to tackle the increasing problem of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in the UK.

As part of its recommendation, the EAC has suggested that the Government updates its obesity strategy to take account of the close relationship between obesity, hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in the UK. BAPEN welcomes the EAC’s support of the Patients Association call to create a definition of under-nutrition which includes both underweight and overweight individuals, and a tool for identifying it.

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