BAPEN News
BAPEN’s Second COVID-19 Related Survey Focused on the Hospital is Now Live!
The first survey focused on discharge from hospital and the community, and this NEW second survey focuses on hospital only. Therefore, this time, BAPEN is calling on all healthcare professionals with experience of working with COVID-19 patients who are acutely unwell with the virus in the hospital setting to take part in this second survey.
The reason for the survey(s) is that BAPEN is seeking to better understand the nutritional care of patients affected by COVID-19. The survey data will be used to identify areas where further support, information, guidelines or training are needed to help preparations for further waves of the pandemic. The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete.
The hope is to be able to share some of the initial findings in early August.
The survey deadline is 3rd July 2020.
To take part, visit: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2NZQP3J
Closure of the eBANS Database for Enteral Nutrition
A difficult but pragmatic decision was made by the BANS committee and BAPEN executive members to close the eBANS database in April. This follows an ongoing decline in submission of eBANS data for enteral nutrition. Feedback from the 2019 eBANS survey of BAPEN membership and dietitians working with home enteral nutrition (HEN) clients, indicated that whilst there was significant desire for national HEN data collection there was a real concern around capacity to submit such data to a national database.
The BANS committee are currently working on other routes to collect national HEN data and would welcome your ideas or thoughts on this and please contact us via bapen@bapen.org.uk
This work has been somewhat curtailed due to the current COVID-19 pandemic but please be assured we will notify you of further developments as they occur.
Thank you to all who have contributed over the years to enteral nutrition eBANS and to the previous BANS committee members who worked so hard to develop and report on the data.