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Age Concern: Hungry to be heard campaign
Age Concern has highlighted the problem of malnourishment in hospital in its Hungry to be Heard campaign. Their campaign report sets out seven steps the charity believes must be taken to tackle this problem with examples of good practice for each step. Age Concern has also produced two simple guides: on spotting the signs of malnourishment in older people in the community and on avoiding problems with food/help with eating for older people going into hospital.
British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN)
BAPEN aims to prevent malnutrition as a result of illness, to treat malnutrition in the most cost-effective manner, and to consequently improve the outcome of illness for patients.There are many helpful nutrition-related resources including the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST).
The Better Hospital Food programme aims to ensure the consistent delivery of high quality food and food services to patients. This site contains best practice guidance, plus resources and background information to support the delivery of food in NHS health care facilities.
British Dietetic Association (BDA)
This is the professional association for UK dietitians. The website provides information on the BDA's activities and a variety of resources for dietitians and the public.
British Nutrition Foundation (BNF)
The British Nutrition Foundation is a scientific and educational charity which promotes the wellbeing of society through the impartial interpretation and effective dissemination of evidence-based nutritional knowledge and advice.This website provides healthy eating information, resources for schools, news items, recipes and details of the work the BNF undertakes in the UK and Europe.
The Caroline Walker Trust is dedicated to the improvement of public health through good food. Established in 1988 to continue the work of the distinguished nutritionist, writer and campaigner Caroline Walker, the Trust is a charity which undertakes specific projects, funded by grants and donations.
Food Standards Agency (FSA)
This government agency’s purpose is to protect the public’s health and consumer interests in relation to food. It provides advice and information to the public and government on food safety, nutrition and diet. It also protects consumers through food enforcement and monitoring.
The aims and objectives of the Association are the promotion and improvement of the standards of catering in hospitals and healthcare establishments in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and elsewhere; the education and training of persons in health care catering services, and the provision and improvement of the professional interests and status of those engaged in health care catering services.
Intute: Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health: Nutritional Care
Intute: Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health provides access to the very best resources on the web. It is completely free to access and constantly updated by a network of subject experts. This link will take you to quality web based resources about nutritional care.
National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG)
The objectives of the NNNG are to promote education in nutrition and related subjects for members of the nursing profession, for the public benefit, and especially for the benefit of patients in hospital and community.
National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) aims to help the NHS in England and Wales learn from its mistakes so that it can improve care, save lives, and prevent more people being harmed when things go wrong. It promotes a culture of safety and openness so that the NHS acknowledges, investigates and learns from incidents and concerns.
(www.rhwydwaithmaethcymru.org.uk)
The Nutrition Network for Wales (NNW) brings together all those individuals and organisations involved in improving nutrition and diet in Wales. The NNW provides its partners with access to information and resources and enables partners to share knowledge and good practice and to learn from each other.
This is the official website of the Nutrition Society, the largest learned society for nutrition in Europe for those interested in the scientific study of human or animal nutrition.
Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
Sustain advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture.
Water for Health is a water industry initiative to guide and inform health professionals and health authorities, to stimulate interest and research and to help move water up the public health agenda.
International organisations
Federation of European Nutrition Societies
The Federation of European Nutrition Socieites aims to exchange information between European experts in nutrition.
HNPStats: the Word Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population data platform
HNPStats is a one-stop data source for health, nutrition and population indicators from various national and international data sources. It provides direct access to more than 100 indicators, with time series for countries and country groups from 1960 to the most recent year, where data are available.
World Health Organization: nutrition
This is the World Health Organization’s website on nutrition. It includes a number of full text WHO publications and reports.