BAPEN Connect: Clinical Nutrition Webinars

Webinar Series: Advancing Clinical Nutrition Knowledge and Practice

Due to the success of the 2025 webinar series, BAPEN is excited to announce that there will continue to be a monthly webinar throughout 2026 designed for healthcare professionals, nutritional scientists, and anyone passionate about clinical nutrition. This series will feature expert-led discussions, cutting-edge research insights, and practical strategies to enhance nutritional care.

Aims

• To provide evidence-based education in clinical nutrition for healthcare professionals, nutritional scientists and healthcare students.
• To highlight the importance of good nutrition and the implications of malnutrition on patient outcomes in all clinical settings.

Each session will tackle key topics such as:

• Managing malnutrition in diverse populations.
• Innovations in artificial nutrition and hydration.
• Multidisciplinary approaches to improving patient outcomes.

The next webinar will be on Wednesday 21 January 12:30 – 13:30 GMT on Management of Enteral Devices.

Speaker

Dr Jane Fletcher

BAPEN Professional Affairs Officer

Jane is the Lead Nurse for Nutrition and Intestinal Failure based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. Early in her career she was a member of the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG) Committee, where she co-authored the Competency Framework for Nutrition Nurse Specialists on behalf of the NNNG and first became involved with BAPEN Communication and Programmes Committees.

Jane has an interest in expanding the role of nutrition nurses, both as independent practitioners and within the wider multi-disciplinary team. She believes in building the evidence base to promote and underpin excellent nutritional care. Jane is currently undertaking an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and is keen to pursue a clinical academic role.

Pete Turner

I have been involved in the organisation of the BAPEN annual conference for around 20 years. This has given me the privilege of working with international experts in clinical nutrition and seeing their presentations.

What are the most exciting things I have learned and how can they be used practically? How do NASA, David Blaine, Chris Froom, the Lancet and polar exploring relate to intravenous fluids, starvation ketosis, refeeding syndrome, multidisciplinary working and my BAPEN related publications?

Find out in this year’s Pennington Lecture.

Adult Nutrition Screening & Assessment – Emma Parsons

Emma is a Registered Dietitian and Assistant Professor in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Nottingham. She is also a visiting Teaching Fellow with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton. Emma is also member of BAPEN’s Malnutrition Action Group (MAG) committee.

Emma has specialist interests in disease related malnutrition and public health. She completed PhD and postdoctoral research exploring the identification and treatment of disease related malnutrition in older people. Emma has contributed to the design, implementation and evaluation of a range of malnutrition projects in the UK.

Emma has extensive experience of teaching, curriculum development and research supervision at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels for nutrition, dietetic, public health and medical students.

Upcoming Webinars

The 2026 series titles will be uploaded shortly and you will be able to register for the full series. Each month you will receive a link to that webinar and if you are unable to attend, members can watch online and non-members can pay to view.

• Topics may alter slightly
• Register NOW for the full series