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Introduction
- How we maintain
Nutrition & Hydration Care for Service Users Health Scrutiny - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Nutrition & Hydration Care for Service Users Health Scrutiny - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Nutrition & Hydration Care for Service Users Health Scrutiny Joint Accountability 5 th October 2011 Introduction How we maintain service users nutrition and hydration across the Trust. Catering Services Ensuring that all
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Catering Services
Ensuring that all service users have:
- Enough to eat
- A choice of foods to suit all diets and appetites
– Dieticians – Range of menus – In right sort of packaging/containers
- Help with eating if needed
– Individualised care planning – Carer involvement – Protected meal times – Housekeepers – Volunteers
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Nutrition & Hydration Care Pathway
- All service users are screened weighed, and assessed on admission
to identify risks of dehydration and malnutrition
- Nutrition care plans are produced for any patients shown to be at
nutritional risk and the plans continually evaluated and revised
- Weekly risk assessment for nutrition and hydration for all service users
- Access to Dietician and Speech & Language Therapist
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Focus on Physical Health Care
- Senior Multi-professional Group to promote good physical
health care
- Nutritional care group
- ‘Energising for Excellence’ events
- Training workbooks developed
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- Physical healthcare training days
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Monitoring
- Modern Matrons observation visits including weekly weight
monitoring reports
- Nutrition group monitors all clinical incidents relating to food
and nutrition and follows each incident through to ensure suitable outcomes
- Nutrition & Hydration audit tool
- Food wastage audits
- Service user satisfaction monitored through PALS
- Essential Standards visit programme involving Governor
Members
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Monitoring
Benchmarking tools including:
- Ombudsman’s Care & Compassion Report
February 2011
- Privacy & Dignity reports - Care Quality
Commission 2011
- Essence of Care
- Chief Nurse – High Impact Actions
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Future Plans
- Revised Guidelines for Nutrition & Hydration
including new fluid balance monitoring
- Nutrition & Hydration audit tool reviewed and
piloted in community and inpatient settings
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