Nutrition Events in Wessex

Nutrition Care Wessex Conference 2018: Making Undernutrition in Older People Everyone's Responsibility

On 6th March 2018, over 100 commissioners, managers and care providers gathered for our final Nutrition Programme conference at the Novotel Southampton. The conference focused on how undernutrition is everyone's business and how everyone need to get involved to address the growing problem. The conference also celebrated the work of the Nutrition in Older People Programme over the last four years.

The keynotes speakers were Mike Wallace, Strategic Affairs Director and Health Economist for Nutricia who spoke about the growing cost of undernutrition with an ageing population and how we can't afford not to get it right, and Dr Liz Weekes, Consultant Dietitian from King's College London sharing her latest research about undernutrition and how everyone needs to take responsibility.

The afternoon featured a choice of 'round robin sessions', giving delegates the opportunity to explore the OPEN toolkit resources, new resources being developed (including the Patients Association Nutrition Checklist and the Nutrition Wheel), how to embed nutritional care pathways in community care and how to present a business case for undernutrition identification and care.

The day also included a display of posters from the region, and opportunity to network with a wide range of people working the community settings. You can view our conference highlights video here

You can view the videos of individual presentations by clicking on the links below. You can also access these through our videos section. PowerPoint presentations and posters from the day can be viewed and downloaded in our 'resources' section on this page. 

Nutrition Care Wessex Conference 2016: Reducing Undernutrition - Spreading the Responsibility

On 17th November 2016, over 100 commissioners, managers and care providers gathered for our second successful conference at the Novotel Southampton. This year's conference focussed on the successful implementation of integrated (health, social care and voluntary sector) nutrition care for older people living in the community, and how we can work together, spreading the responsibility, to reduce undernutrition.

The morning keynote speakers included Dr Rachel Pryke, RCGP Clinical Lead for Nutrition, and Dr Trevor Smith, BAPEN lead on data and measurement. In the afternoon there was a choice of three workshops: "Getting undernutrition on the commissioning agenda", "Providing good community nutritional care" and "Raising awareness in carers / domiciliary care (training session)".

The agenda also explored highlights of the Wessex AHSN Nutrition in Older People Programme as well as projects from around Wessex both in the form of short presentations and posters. You can view our conference highlights video here.

You can view the videos of individual presentations by clicking on the links below. You can also access these through our videos section. Materials from the conference are available to download in the 'resources' section on this page. Please note that each the posters and presentation slides from the 2016 conference will download as a .zip file. Use WinZip (often installed as standard on PCs) or Windows Explorer to open, extract and save the files. Should you encounter any problems, please click the Contact Us button below.

Nutrition Care Wessex Conference 2015: Perspectives on Malnutrition

120 people attended this successful conference on 29th September which focused on the current challenges and solutions in identifying and caring for older people with malnutrition. 

Guest speakers gave the perspective of the issues caused by malnutrition in older people from the health, social care, voluntary sector and commissioning viewpoints.   

The agenda also explored highlights of the Wessex AHSN nutrition programme as well as projects from around Wessex both in the form of short verbal presentations and posters.   

Two workshops were held: one investigated the challenges facing people who are involved with implementing good nutritional care in older people; the second explored the new NHS England commissioning guidance 'Improving commissioning of nutrition and hydration' which is due to be launched in early October 2015. 

Materials from the conference are available to download in the 'resources' section on this page. Please note that each the posters and presentation slides from the 2015 conference will download as a .zip file. Use WinZip (often installed as standard on PCs) or Windows Explorer to open, extract and save the files. Should you encounter any problems, please click the Contact Us button below.