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BAPEN Service Improvement and Innovation Awards
The COVID-19 pandemic has required clinical teams across the UK to rapidly alter their working practices. BAPEN wanted to promote and celebrate the service improvements and innovations that have taken place across the country during the most challenging period in the history of the NHS, and invited submissions to our COVID-19 Service Improvement and Innovation Awards.
The judging panel consisted of Dr Barry Jones (Chair BAPEN IAC), Dianne Jeffrey (BAPEN Trustee) and Steve Pearson-Brown (General Secretary PINNT). The judges were extremely impressed by the submissions as they were all indicative of great effort put in by teams during testing times.
The joint winners were:
- Preserving PPE on the AICU (University Hospitals of Leicester)
- Implementing a Post-Hospital Discharge Early Intervention Clinic (NHS Surrey Heartlands CCG & Royal Surrey Hospital).
To read more, along with view those entries that were highly commended, click here.
Meet the BAPEN Board of Trustees
The BAPEN Board of Trustees comprises Senior Executive Officers and a number of external trustees who have a wealth of experience in the nutrition and the charity sector. As with any charity, the board has a legal responsibility to ensure good governance with the rules of the charity commission and provides oversight of BAPEN activities.
The BAPEN Board of Trustees
- Dr Trevor Smith (BAPEN President and Trustee)
- Dianne M Jeffrey CBE DL, Hon D Univ. Hon Doc SHU (Trustee)
- Dr Barry Jones (Chair IAC and Trustee)
- Phil Lyons MBE (Trustee)
- Dr Chris Mountford (BAPEN Treasurer and Trustee)
- Roger Phillips (Trustee)
- Dr Daniel Rogers (BAPEN Secretary and Trustee).
To find out more about the BAPEN Board of Trustees, click here.
Aerosol Generating Procedures
The AGP Alliance (Chaired by BAPEN's Dr Barry Jones) is calling on Governments and health services in all four nations of the UK to review and designate the full range of Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGPs) as a matter of urgency.
Read the AGP Alliance Position Statement
Read the AGP Alliance Letter to the Prime Minister
BAPEN Joins the Inequalities in Health Alliance
We are delighted to announce that we have joined the Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA). The IHA is a coalition, and we are pleased to stand alongside dozens of other not-for-profit organisations working in health, social care and beyond as we collectively campaign for a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities.
The IHA believes that the needs of vulnerable people must always be considered when making policy, and that the potential impact of policies on the poorest in society should be weighed up before final decisions are made in Westminster and Whitehall. We wholeheartedly agree with this approach, and think it has a particular relevance to our work, as many vulnerable people may find themselves at particular risk of malnutrition or struggling to access the most appropriate and timely nutritional care. We look forward to working together with our IHA colleagues to continue to raise awareness of health inequalities and to call for change where it is needed.
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