Nutrition and hydration week – 23-29 January 2012
On 23 January 2012 the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) and Patient Safety First will be launching a week focused on nutrition and hydration: ‘A taste of patient safety’. Poor
Year: 2011
NNNG and Nursing Times promote nutritional care in practice
In partnership with the Nursing Times, the NNNG has produced this poster – Essential Nutritional Care : The Patient Journey. The poster provides a simplistic approach to providing nutritional care
NNNG Welcome New Chair of BAPEN
Media Release Issued 29th November 2011 NNNG WELCOMES BAPEN NEW CHAIR DR TIM BOWLING ANNOUNCED 28th November 2011, Liz Evans, Chair of the NNNG states: We are delighted
BAPEN Conference 2011 – Statement
Dear All In response to a request to provide a statement in respect of the proposed National Strike on Wednesday 30th November, 2011, the BAPEN Executive and the Conference Programmes
Nutrition Nurse Wins National Award 2011
Tracy Earley, Consultant Nurse – Nutrition Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and committee member of the NNNG wins prestigious Nursing Times, ‘Nurse of the Year award’ in London on Wednesday 2nd November
CQC calls for action to improve care for older people
CQC today publishes a report into the standards of care that elderly people receive in hospital – and calls for a system-wide response to combat the failings identified. (Download the
NNNG Newsletter: July 2011 – Conference Special!
The latest NNNG Newsletter is out. The July 2011 edition is a “Conference Special” and contains all the details from what was an excellent event in Manchester. Download the Newsletter
NNNG Conference 2011
The NNNG 2011 conference was held in Castlefield, Manchester. The 2011 conference was a huge success. For further details and photos from the event read our review of the NNNG
Press Release: NNNG welcomes latest NSPA Patient Safety Alert
NNNG Chair Liz Evans welcomes the NPSA Alert “Reducing the harm caused by misplaced nasogastric feeding tubes in adults, children and infants”*. Liz Evans, Chair of the NNNG states: The
Warning: Inadvertent Administration of Enteral Feed into a Peripheral Cannula
An incident has occurred where a member of hospital staff adapted the medicine port on an enteral feed giving set to enable it to be directly connected to a patient’s