Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2024 - how tube feeds help people to live, grow and thrive!
This week marks the 2024 Feeding Tube Awareness Week (4-10th February 2024) taking place worldwide - designed to encourage people to talk about their experiences with tube feeding and raise awareness.
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Demanding more on nutritional care - BAPEN 2023 Annual Conference
On 28-29 November 700 delegates ascended to Edinburgh to attend the BAPEN 2023 Annual Conference. The conference, hosted by the British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN), brought together leading multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals, patient groups, industry and networks from across the UK to share leading nutritional research and advances in practice.
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Bienvenue à Lyon - 45th ESPEN congress
ESPEN welcomed delegates to the 45th ESPEN congress on 11-14th September 2023
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‘Value Share Engage’ - Home Artificial Nutrition (HAN) Week 7-13 August 2023
HAN Week 2023, run by the patient support group PINNT (Patients on Intravenous and Nasogastric Nutrition Treatment), is dedicated to raising awareness about essential treatments - covering parenteral nutrition, enteral nutrition, and oral nutritional supplements for people at home and in the community.
For those that need it, medical nutrition can be life changing, but for some people it can be lifesaving.
BSNA welcomes HAN Week 2023 as a valuable opportunity to continue to raise the understanding of the value of home-based nutritional support, and the role healthcare professionals have in supporting people to live their life beyond their home!
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The Power of Concerted Efforts Against Malnutrition
The Optimal Nutritional Care for All (ONCA) campaign is a multi-stakeholder initiative to facilitate greater screening for risk of disease-related malnutrition/undernutrition and nutritional care implementation across Europe. This year, the ONCA International Conference took place in Amsterdam, bringing together healthcare professionals, patients, policy makers and industry representatives, with the focus being on the continuity of nutrition care.
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BSNA welcomes Vienna Declaration - nutritional care as a human right
At this year's European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) conference, attendees supported an important statement on the right to nutritional care as an intrinsic human right. BSNA welcomes this important step in prioritising nutrition in patient care.
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How do we tackle malnutrition in the UK? Dietitians are central to the solution!
For Dietitians Week 2022, we reflect on the importance of dietitians and why they are central to tackling malnutrition in the UK.
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Did You Know about the Importance of Nutrition in the ICU?
This week is National Intensive Care week (6-12 June 2022) which celebrates the intensive care specialty and those working within it. Caring for the sickest patients in hospitals takes a large multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, and dietitians.
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World Food Safety Day 7 June 2022
To celebrate World Safety Day (7 June) BSNA has joined with International Special Dietary Foods Industries (ISDI) to recognise the importance of food safety and support ongoing partnership working to ensure food safety.
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New BSNA infographic published - A guide to Commercial Compounders
BSNA's short guide to Commercial Compounders explores the valuable role the sector has for the NHS and patients
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