Nutrition at the Heart of Care – National Association of Care Catering Conference and Exhibition 2009

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(2010), "Nutrition at the Heart of Care – National Association of Care Catering Conference and Exhibition 2009", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 40 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/nfs.2010.01740aac.001

Nutrition at the Heart of Care – National Association of Care Catering Conference and Exhibition 2009

Article Type: Conference reports From: Nutrition & Food Science, Volume 40, Issue 1.

9-11 September 2009, Hilton Blackpool

This conference was attended by over 2,000 delegates who are involved in providing nutritional care; they included caterers, dieticians, home managers and food and meal providers.

An opening address was given by Sue Ullmann, Chair of National Association of Care Catering.

Nutrition at the heart of care – Gordon Lishman, Director General of Age Concern

Keynotes address to delegates to include the Age Concern perspective on nutrition at the heart of care, together with Gordon's update on the work of the Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board.

Workshops included

Reducing harm from nutritional care

Caroline Lecko, National Patients Safety Agency

This workshop provided delegates with the opportunity to learn about the nutrition related incidents reported to the National Patients Safety Agency and to consider how the nutritional care/services they deliver has the potential to cause harm to service users. Delegates will have time to identify the barriers they have to delivering safe nutritional care. The final part of the workshop enabled to attendees to consider opportunities within the services they provide for improving the safety of nutritional care.

Nutrition and healthy eating within the community

Dr Mabel Blades, Dietician and Nutritionist

Delegates covered provisions, portions and a practical approach to food and nutrition, together with what is a MUST score of 4? What is soluble fibre? What does BMI mean?

This was a very interactive and lively session with numerous questions.

Malnutrition in Care Catering

Dr Marnie Sommerville, The Nutrition Training Company

This workshop considered:

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  Under and over nutrition, common nutrient and other deficiencies, calories and saturated fat focus, modified texture diets relevance to care commission guidance (Scotland) and National Care standards and Nutrition Action Plan (England).

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  Possible future developments in nutrient and food standards.

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  Training provision in the marketplace and the role of dietetic audits.

Eating well for dementia

Lisa Wilson, Science Director Caroline Walker Trust

Lisa Wilson detailed the needs of people with dementia.

Addressing malnutrition in sheltered housing

Imogen Parry, Director of Policy ERoSH & Independent Sheltered Housing Consultant

Christine Russell, BAPEN's Nutrition Screening & Independent Nutrition Consultant

More older people live in sheltered housing than in care homes. The presenters described a training programme for scheme managers which includes the use of “Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool” (“MUST”) and a non-clinical tool for identifying the risk of malnutrition in older people living in sheltered housing and the linked project undertaken to establish the prevalence of malnutrition in sheltered housing. They also drew on the recently published Good Practice Guide on Addressing Malnutrition.

Food as treatment

Rick Wilson, Director Dietetics and Nutrition, Kings College Hospital, London

Rick described the needs for good nutrition while presenting cookery to meet those needs.

For more information on Care Catering visit www.thenacc.co.uk