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 for older people
- Care Quality Commission (2015) Guidance for providers on meeting the regulations (PDF)
- 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: Healthy eating
- NICE(2017) Nutrition support for adults: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition
- NICE 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
- NICE (2012) Quality standard for nutrition support in adults (QS24)
Scotland
- Healthcare Improvement Scotland (2014) Standards for food, fluid and nutritional care
- Healthcare Improvement Scotland: Improving Nutrition... Improving Care final report (PDF)
- NHS Education for Scotland (2010) Making a difference: the evolution of the nutrition champion role in NHS Scotland (PDF)
- NHS Education for Scotland: Nutritional care in hospitals (PDF)
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (2007) Caring for children and young people in the community receiving enteral tube feeding: best practice statement
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (2003) Food, fluid and nutritional care in hospitals: clinical standards
- Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit (2002) Nutritional Assessment and Referral in the Care of Adults in Hospital Best Practice Statement
- Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit (2002) Nutrition for physically frail older people: best practice statement
- Scottish Government (2011) Improving maternal and infant nutrition: a framework for action
- Scottish Government (2009) Older People Living in the Community - Nutritional Needs, Barriers and Interventions: a Literature Review (PDF)
- Scottish Government (2016) Food in hospitals: National catering and nutrition specification for food and fluid provision in hospitals in Scotland (PDF)
Wales
- Welsh Government (2012) All Wales nutrition and catering standards for food and fluid for hospital inpatients (PDF)
- Welsh Government (2011) Nutrition in community settings. A pathway and resource pack (PDF)
- Welsh Assembly Government (2004) National minimum standards for care homes for older people (PDF)
Northern Ireland
- Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team (CREST) (2004) Guidelines for the management of enteral tube feeding in adults (PDF)
- Department of Health, Northern Ireland (2013) Promoting good nutrition - Promoting Good Nutrition strategy and guidance
- Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) (2007): Get your 10 a day! The Nursing care standards for patient food in hospital (PDF)
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: Council of Europe resolution food and nutritional care in hospitals (PDF)
- 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
- European Commission: Public Health - Nutrition and physical activity
- Managing Adult Nutrition. Managing Malnutrition in COPD. This practical guide will assist healthcare professionals in identifying and managing people with COPD who are malnourished or at risk of disease-related malnutrition.
- 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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Page last updated - 26/02/2025
