food nutrition : Hospitals miss targets over food nutrition
SCOTTISH health boards are failing to meet national guidelines set down three years ago to ensure nutrition becomes part of patient care.
Four of them – Lothian, Fife, Orkney and Shetland – were found to lack even a plan and strategy for ensuring nutrition food, fluid and nutrition is made part of a patient's care, according to the NHS watchdog.
NHS Lothian was criticised for having only one specialist nurse providing advice and training for patients with complex nutrition care needs at Edinburgh's two main hospitals.
The national pattern SCOTTISH health boards are failing to meet national guidelines set down three years ago to ensure nutrition becomes part of patient care.
Four of them – Lothian, Fife, Orkney and Shetland – were found to lack even a plan and strategy for ensuring food, fluid and nutrition is made part of a patient's care, according to the NHS watchdog.
NHS Lothian was criticised for having only one specialist nurse providing advice and training for patients with complex nutrition care needs at Edinburgh's two main hospitals.
The national pattern showed there is an urgent need to increase the numbers of such expert nurses, though neither the watchdog nor the Scottish Executive was able to say how many there are.
No NHS board has yet earmarked funding to ensure nutrition targets are achieved. It was also found that links with social services to ensure nutrition support is continued in the community, are at a "very rudimentary stage".
The findings were published yesterday by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS), which reported major progress in getting hospital managers and clinicians to see
nutrition as part of clinical care and helping patients recover.
Research has shown high levels of under-nourishment among patients. According to research from the 1990s, up to 50% of patients were under-nourished on admission, and yet the problem was identified in only one-quarter of those cases.
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Four of them – Lothian, Fife, Orkney and Shetland – were found to lack even a plan and strategy for ensuring nutrition food, fluid and nutrition is made part of a patient's care, according to the NHS watchdog.
NHS Lothian was criticised for having only one specialist nurse providing advice and training for patients with complex nutrition care needs at Edinburgh's two main hospitals.
The national pattern SCOTTISH health boards are failing to meet national guidelines set down three years ago to ensure nutrition becomes part of patient care.
Four of them – Lothian, Fife, Orkney and Shetland – were found to lack even a plan and strategy for ensuring food, fluid and nutrition is made part of a patient's care, according to the NHS watchdog.
NHS Lothian was criticised for having only one specialist nurse providing advice and training for patients with complex nutrition care needs at Edinburgh's two main hospitals.
The national pattern showed there is an urgent need to increase the numbers of such expert nurses, though neither the watchdog nor the Scottish Executive was able to say how many there are.
No NHS board has yet earmarked funding to ensure nutrition targets are achieved. It was also found that links with social services to ensure nutrition support is continued in the community, are at a "very rudimentary stage".
The findings were published yesterday by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS), which reported major progress in getting hospital managers and clinicians to see
nutrition as part of clinical care and helping patients recover.
Research has shown high levels of under-nourishment among patients. According to research from the 1990s, up to 50% of patients were under-nourished on admission, and yet the problem was identified in only one-quarter of those cases.
Copyright © 2006 Newsquest
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