Nutrition and hydration: Professional Resources

You can use this page to familiarise yourself with nutrition and hydration strategies, standards and policies for each of the UK countries and the rest of Europe.

The resources on this page are arranged by region:

England

Care Quality Commission (CQC): Dignity and nutrition NHS
Care Quality Commission (2015) Guidance for providers on meeting the regulations
Care Quality Commission (2015) Regulations for service providers and managers: Regulation 14 - Meeting nutritional and hydration needs
Care Quality Commission (2011) Dignity and nutrition for older people: national overview
Department of Health (2014) Healthier and more sustainable catering: a toolkit for serving food to adults
Department of Health (2012) Principles for hospital food
Department of Health. Essence of Care 2010: Benchmarks for Food and Drink
Department of Health: Nutrition
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2017) Nutrition support for adults: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Public Health guidance PH11 (2014) Maternal and child nutrition. Guidance for midwives, health visitors, pharmacists and other primary care services to improve the nutrition of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children in low income households
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2012) Quality standard for nutrition support in adults (QS24)

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Wales

Northern Ireland

UK and Europe

Alzheimer's Disease International (2014) Nutrition and dementia. This report investigates how the right nutrition can help make life better for people affected by dementia.
BAPEN Nutritional Care Tool. A new web-based nutritional care tool which will help organisations to monitor the effectiveness of their nutritional care plans.
BAPEN. Millions could be cut from NHS bill by tackling silent malnutrition epidemic. This report identifies more than £200 million of annual savings for health and social care services through simple steps to tackle the nation’s multi-billion pound malnutrition burden.
BAPEN reports. This page includes the latest reports on prevalence of malnutrition on admission to hospital and also to care homes.
BAPEN: Council of Europe resolution food and nutritional care in hospitals
British Medical Association. Clinically-assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH). New guidance to support doctors making decisions about CANH for adults who lack capacity in England and Wales.
Cochrane Library (2015) Clinical symptoms, signs and tests for identification of impending and current water-loss dehydration in older people
Council of Europe (2003) Food and nutritional care in hospitals how to prevent undernutrition: report and recommendations of the committee of experts on nutrition, food safety and consumer protection
European Commission: nutrition
European Commission: Public Health - Nutrition and physical activity
European Nutrition for Health Alliance (2011) Tackling Malnutrition: Oral nutritional supplements as an integrated part of patient and disease management in hospital and in the community
European Nutrition for Health Alliance (2006) From Malnutrition to Wellnutrition: Malnutrition among older people in the community
European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism: Guidelines and position papers
Managing adult malnutrition in the community (2018). A practical guide and pathway to assist community healthcare professionals in identifying and managing the 3 million people in the UK at risk of disease-related malnutrition. It has been developed by a multi-professional team and is endorsed by ten key organisations.
World Health Organisation (WHO): Nutrition

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