BSNA News
Job opportunity: Secretary General of International Special Dietary Foods Industries Association (ISDI)
ISDI is recruiting a new Secretary General to provide strategic leadership for the association's activities and proactively represent the collective voice of the global special dietary foods industries to decision makers (including WHO and Codex) and key stakeholders.
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BSNA welcomes Nutrition and Hydration Week 2023 – How to reinforce, focus and energise around good nutritional care
BSNA is delighted to welcome this year’s Nutrition and Hydration Week – the annual opportunity to promote understanding of the importance of nutrition and hydration in health and social care.
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BSNA response to 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding, including the influence of commercial milk formula marketing
Following the the launch of the 2023 Lancet Series on breastfeeding today (8 February 2023) BSNA member companies have commented to state their support for the World Health Organization (WHO) Code and agreement that breastfeeding is important for infant health. BSNA members protect and promote breastfeeding.
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Home Artificial Nutrition Week 2022 -explaining the role of medical foods like Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) or enteral tube feeds
As part of a new series, BSNA has launched the first of its videos on the sectors we represent, looking at medical foods including enteral tube feeds. Thousands of people in the UK rely on home enteral feeds to meet their nutritional needs.
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All about BSNA - new video explains all about the sectors represented by BSNA.
BSNA has launched a new video giving a summary of all the sectors represented by the association and what roles and activities that involves. Sector specific videos will also be launched to give a more detailed insight into infant nutrition, medical and parenteral nutrition and the commercial compounding.
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A Parliamentary peek into the inner workings of Commercial Compounding manufacturing
BSNA welcome Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP and David Simmonds MP to visit local BSNA member compounding site and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
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BSNA to host a three part webinar on parenteral nutrition and the role of nurses from hospital to home
Starting on 18 May, the British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA) is to host a live three-part webinar series, endorsed by the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG), introducing parenteral nutrition to nurses and exploring the role of the nurse though a patient journey from diagnosis, to hospital care and finally home parenteral nutrition.
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One Month Left to Submit a Proposal for 2022 MNI Grant
There is just one month left to submit proposals for the annual Medical Nutrition International Industry (MNI) grant. Deadline for submission of proposals is 15 May 2022.
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BSNA responds to World Health Organisation report ‘How marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant feeding’
BSNA has issued a response to the WHO report on marketing of formula milk, published today.
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Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2022 - supporting people to live, grow and thrive!
BSNA is supporting the 12th annual 'Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2022' (7-11 February 2022) and its mission to promote the positive benefits of feeding tubes as lifesaving medical interventions – spreading awareness and providing education about feeding tubes and the importance of feeding tubes.
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