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BSNA Response to Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Market Study Final Report
Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds visits local aseptic compounding facility
Ask, Look and Listen - Malnutrition Awareness Week 2024 (11-17 November)
BSNA STATEMENT ON COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY (CMA) INTERIM REPORT ON INFANT FORMULA MARKET
Survey on the Safety of Nutritional Borderline Substances
Standard adult ready-to-drink oral nutritional supplements: ACBS policy
World Food Safety Day 7 June - prepare for the unexpected
BSNA joins global colleagues to welcome the new global standard on follow-up formula for older infants and products for young children
SNE statement on World Health Organization Guideline for complementary feeding of infants and young children
Making disease-related malnutrition a priority for health and social care in the UK and worldwide – Malnutrition Awareness Week 2023
Blog Posts
BSNA welcomes the launch of the first International Day on Intestinal Failure today (1 February 2025)
BAPEN 2024 Annual Conference, Gateshead 5-6 November
Discussing the future of health and care transformation – BSNA at the Public Policy Projects Integrated Care Delivery Forum (5 November 2024)
'Working Together' - Home Artificial Nutrition Week, 5-9 August 2024
The Turin ONCA Conference: A Nutritional Care Policy Summit
Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2024 - how tube feeds help people to live, grow and thrive!
Demanding more on nutritional care - BAPEN 2023 Annual Conference
Bienvenue à Lyon - 45th ESPEN congress
‘Value Share Engage’ - Home Artificial Nutrition (HAN) Week 7-13 August 2023
The Power of Concerted Efforts Against Malnutrition
People

Abdul assumed the role of Head of Nutrition at Reckitt in February 2024, bringing over nine years of extensive experience in the medical nutrition industry. His journey began in 2015, traversing various sales, marketing, and commercial positions at Nestle Health Science and Nutricia. Prior to this, he worked as a research engineer for four years after completing his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the fields of Medical Engineering and Business Management.

Claire Joined BSNA as Executive Assistant in July 2022. She has an MA (Dist) Journalism and Communications from the University of Hertfordshire. With over 10 years experience in various business support roles, Claire looks after all administration at BSNA.

Clare Wakley
Head of Homecare UKI, Medical Products & Therapies at Baxter International Inc.
Clare leads the UK and Ireland Nutrition and OPAT Homecare business for Baxter. Baxter is a global medical device and pharmaceutical company who for 90 years have built a portfolio of technologies and services now available in more than 100 countries.
She has worked for over 25 years in nutrition sales and marketing roles across commercial medical/Pharma and FMCG organisations. She has extensive direct line management and business development/innovation experience and has a huge passion for coaching and mentorship.

Director General of BSNA since January 2015, Declan studied agricultural science and worked as an agricultural advisor in a co-op and then in the crop protection industry before joining the trade association world. Prior to joining BSNA, he spent 10 years running a European Veterinary Medicine trade association based in Brussels.

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Lorraine Reynolds

Matthew Goddard

Mike Cullen
Mike is a B Braun veteran of 22 years and has spent his career in a variety of commercial roles at B Braun Medical UK and was previously the Head of Sales & Marketing for Clinical Nutrition & Pharma from 2012 – 2018.
He now has a wider remit across B Braun, as Head of Value & Access, which includes responsibilities for Market Access & Public Affairs.

Mikko was appointed Managing Director of Fresenius Kabi Limited UK and Ireland, and Calea UK Limited in 2022, following an 8-year stint as Managing Director of Fresenius Kabi South Africa and an earlier career in Finance within the Fresenius group. The organisation offers a complex product and service portfolio including clinical nutrition, intravenously administered drugs, infusion therapy, biosimilars, medical devices, transfusion medicine, cell therapies and homecare services.

Mohamed Soltan
Mohamed is Head of Medical Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at Nestle Nutrition UK&I. He is a licensed Physician with a post graduate Diploma from the UK in Clinical Nutrition. He has over 28 years of extensive, broad based pharmaceutical, FMCG & Consumer Medical Affairs and R&D experience in multinational companies, including Pfizer Inc; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals & Wyeth Nutrition; and, Nestle Nutrition.

Natasha is an experienced strategist and communicator with more than 20 years’ experience in specialised nutrition. She has enjoyed a varied career in UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand working in both early life nutrition and medical nutrition.
She is a scientist by background with a PhD in Biology and Biochemistry. She has held executive positions in Marketing, Sales, Medical, Public & Corporate Affairs and Comms as well as non-executive positions in a task force and was a previous Board member of the BSNA.
Natasha runs her own consultancy helping businesses and other organisations with their growth strategies. She is also a stand-up comedian, facilitator and public speaker.
Natasha has been the Chair of the BSNA Board for one year.

Olivier Lechanoine
Olivier is Vice President for Danone Specialised Nutrition in UK and Ireland. Over the last 10+ years, Oliver has held various commercial roles for Danone Specialised Nutrition, based in UK, Netherlands and Belgium, with both local and global responsibilities. Previously, Olivier has also held commercial roles in consumer care and medical devices for Johnson & Johnson.


Raj Banwait
Raj is the Head of Regulatory Affairs at Nestle Health Science for UK & Ireland. She has over 15 years’ experience in Regulatory Affairs and has held several roles within the manufacturing and retail industries at Holland & Barrett, Sainsburys, Pepsico and Alliance Pharma, supporting the commercialisation of an array of product categories including Medicines, Medical Devices, Food Supplements and FSMPs.