- Key Characteristic No 9
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Key Characteristic 9
Food service and nutritional care is provided safely.
Why is this important?
Poor nutritional care threatens the safety of people in all health and
social care settings. Safety issues should be identified and action taken to improve care.
What does good nutritional care look like?
Trusts in NI
are using the patient safety method of
Nutrition Care Bundles to ensure patients are screened for risk of malnutrition on admission to hospital.
Many are reporting this via their patient safety forums and agreeing actions to increase reporting and
so reduce the risk through appropriate nutritional care planning. As a result screening has increased
by as much as 100% in some areas.
- All opportunities for identifying and responding to triggers that may cause malnutrition are realised.
- MUST is embedded in all health and social care settings including people's own home.
- Nutritional care is inline with evidence based guidelines on the safe management and administration of enteral and parenteral nutrition.
- Health and safety legislation is an integral part of delivering safe nutritional care.
- A range of indicators will be in place that measure and demonstrate continuous improvement in safe nutritional care.
| 10 a day | Hungry to be Heard 7 steps | Essence of Care |
|---|---|---|
Standard 1 - 6 |
Step 2 |
