Hospital Pharmacist
2006;13:349
November 2006

News summary

Hospitals fail to comply with NICE nutrition guidelines

Less than half of all UK hospitals have put in place multidisciplinary nutrition support teams to co-ordinate nutritional care for their patients. This is despite guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, issued to trusts (in England and Wales) in February, which states that all hospital trusts should have such teams in place and they should include a pharmacist.

The research, carried out by a committee of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, was presented at the group’s conference held in Brighton earlier this month (PDF 340K). Hospital nutrition is the subject of this month’s Hospital Pharmacist special feature (see p353–66).