Complex nutritional care standards
Document Type
Standards
Summary
We have developed standards to support staff to ensure the highest standards of complex nutritional care services are achieved.
The complex nutritional care standards cover these areas:
- Policy and strategy
- Assessment and plan of care
- Enteral tube feeding
- Parenteral nutrition
- Supporting patients, and
- Staff education and training
Overview of standards
Standard 1: Each NHS board’s strategic hydration and nutritional care group, as defined in the Food, fluid and nutritional care standards, is responsible for ensuring that systems are in place, which ensure that patients who require complex nutritional care are safely and effectively managed.
Standard 2: Each NHS board ensures patients considered for complex nutritional care have a multidisciplinary assessment.
Standard 3: Each NHS board ensures the safe and effective delivery of enteral tube feeding.
Standard 4: Each NHS board ensures the safe and effective delivery of parenteral nutrition.
Standard 5: Each NHS board ensures patients are informed, involved and supported in all stages of their care.
Standard 6: Each NHS board ensures staff have the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver complex nutritional care safely and effectively.