BSNA News
FREE Webinar Series for Dietitians: Understanding Parenteral Nutrition
BSNA is hosting a three-part educational webinar series designed specifically for dietitians with limited or no experience of parenteral nutrition (PN). Each session is 45minutes long from 13.00-13.45. Dates: 20 November, 27 November and 4 December. Reserve your place today!
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Supporting a new blueprint for the effective treatment of malnutrition worldwide
BSNA, along with international colleagues at ISDI (International Special Dietary Foods Industries) are supporting work on a new ISO standard for Malnutrition Prevention, Detection and Treatment, Treatment, which will serve as a blueprint for the effective treatment of malnutrition in healthcare facilities worldwide. An ISO standard is an internationally recognized document, created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), that provides a consistent set of guidelines and specifications for products, processes, or services to ensure quality, safety, and efficiency
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BSNA RESPONSE TO PUBLICATION OF COMMERCIAL BABY FOOD AND DRINK: VOLUNTARY INDUSTRY GUIDELINES
On 22 August 2025, the Department of Health and Social Care published it voluntary industry guidelines on commercial baby food and drink.
In response, Declan O’Brien, Director General at the British Specialist Nutrition Association, said:
BSNA members welcome the publication of the guidelines and are committed to providing high-quality and nutritious foods and marketing and labelling them in a responsible way.
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Celebrating Home Artificial Nutrition Week 2025!
BSNA is delighted to welcome this year’s Home Artificial Nutrition (HAN) Week (4-10 August 2025) as a timely opportunity to raise awareness of how many thousands of patients across the country can be supported at home and in the community with nutritional care from parenteral nutrition, tube feeding and oral nutritional supplements (ONS)
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BSNA welcomes the new 10 Year Health Plan - allowing millions of patients to have care closer to home and an opportunity to create more healthcare in their homes.
Today’s launch of the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan is welcomed by BSNA as a positive step to a future NHS where many more patients can be better cared for and treated not only closer to home but also in their homes.
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BSNA publishes new report on transforming healthcare in the home - an ambitious vision for the NHS ten year plan
In March BSNA were delighted to welcome colleagues from across the NHS to our ‘Healthcare in the Home – benefits for all’ conference at the start of March to discuss how the NHS can achieve the Government’s desired shift to far more care being delivered closer to and in the home.
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BSNA Response to Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Market Study Final Report
BSNA has published a response to today's (14 February) Market Study final report and its recommendations for changes to the regulation of the infant formula market
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Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds visits local aseptic compounding facility
Earlier this month, Oxford East MP, Rt Hon Anneliese Dodds visiting Baxter Healthcare's aseptic compounding facility in her constituency to learn more about the vital products manufactured by BSNA members who provide aseptically manufactured infusions to the NHS.
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Ask, Look and Listen - Malnutrition Awareness Week 2024 (11-17 November)
BSNA is delighted to support this year’s Malnutrition Awareness Week (11-17 November), launched by the Malnutrition Taskforce and BAPEN in 2018 to raise awareness of undernutrition and dehydration in the UK.
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BSNA STATEMENT ON COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY (CMA) INTERIM REPORT ON INFANT FORMULA MARKET
BSNA welcomes the interim report from the CMA and the opportunity to engage with them further. Our priority is that families are able to access the support and information they need to give their babies a healthy start in life, whether they choose to breastfeed or use infant formula.
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