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Nutrition summit and action plan

  • Last modified date:
    13 November 2008

Taking action to promote nutritional care is a key focus of the campaign  

Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board

The Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board met for the first time on 12 February 2008 to discuss progress towards the Action Plan commitments. The board consists of a Core Group, chaired by Gordon Lishman, Director General of Age Concern. There will also be five sub-groups, each chaired by a member of the Core Group, one for each of the key priority actions listed in the Nutrition Action Plan.

Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board mid-year progress report

The Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board mid-year report is an independent report written by the Chair of the Board, in conjunction with key stakeholders. It summarises the Board's achievements in the first half of the year and identifies areas where further work needs to be done to implement the Nutrition Action Plan fully and meet the overall goal of improving nutritional care.

Queries about the Delivery Board should be directed to:

Richard Campbell
tel: 020 7972 4027
or
Sue Samples
tel: 0113 254 6475

Nutrition Action Plan

Published: 30 October 2007

The Nutrition Action Plan outlines how nutritional care and hydration can be improved and suggests five key priority areas through which managers and staff working in health and social care can address this.

Nutrition Summit

A first summit with key stakeholders on nutrition in the care of older people in health and social care settings was held by the Department of Health in London on 14 March 2007. A further summit took place in July 2007

Nutrition Screening Week

In September 2007, BAPEN (the British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) undertook a UK-wide survey on malnutrition on admission to care services.

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