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Improving nutritional care
— a joint Action Plan from the Department of Health and Nutrition Summit stakeholders | | Corporate Author | Nutrition Summit stakeholder group; Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | Electronic format, London, October 2007 |
| Pages | 48 pp (Gateway ref: 8813) |
| Source | Download publication (2/11/07): www.dh.gov.uk/publications |
| Keywords | Nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Dehydration ; Policy ; Coordination ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | The Nutrition Action Plan outlines how nutritional care and hydration can be improved and suggests five key priorities for action in the NHS and social care. This action plan outlines progress on those priorities: raising awareness of the link between nutrition and good health and that malnutrition can be prevented; accessible, appropriate and user-friendly guidance; encouraging national screening, pay particular attention to known vulnerable groups; encouraging provision and access to relevant training; and clarifying standards and strengthening inspection and regulation. Gordon Lishman, Director General of Age Concern, has been asked to chair the Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board that will ensure delivery of the Action Plan. This plan results from campaigns such as Age Concern's "Hungry to be Heard" and the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) Nutrition Now. The report provides electronic links to these and other referenced information sources. The stakeholders involved in producing the nutritional action plan are:. - Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) - Age Concern (AC) - British Medical Association (BMA) - British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) - British Dietetic Association (BDA) - Caroline Walker Trust (CWT) - Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) - Council of Europe Alliance (UK) (CoEA) - English Community Association (ECCA) - Food Standards Agency (FSA) - Healthcare Commission (HCC) - Help the Aged (HtA) - Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) - Local Government Association (LGA) - National Association of Care Catering (NACC) - National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG) - National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) - NHS Core Learning Unit (NHSCLU) - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) - Patients Association (PA) - People First (PF) - Royal Institute of Public Health (RIPH) - Royal College of Nursing (RCN) - Skills for Care (SfC) - Skills for Health (SfH) - Sustain - United Kingdom Home - Care Association (UKHCA) - Water UK (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-071102201 E |
| Classmark | CF: CSM: CST: QAD: QAJ: 6OA |
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