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New campaign calls for greater focus on nutrition in healthcare
The Optimal Nutritional Care for All initiative aims to support the implementation of better nutritional care for patients across the continent.
Disease-related malnutrition costs an estimated €170 billion to treat each year in Europe, and with healthcare budgets being tightened many have said that tackling the issue at the level of nutritional care should be viewed as a logical imperative.
The priorities and objectives of the campaign were agreed in early November when 80 expert participants ranging from national medical society representatives to dieticians and policymakers convened in Brussels. All participants have signed the Charter for Optimal Nutritional Care, a document that lays out a shared vision for raising nutritional standards in healthcare.
“Over the years of advocating on the issue of malnutrition, we’ve learnt that working across multi-disciplinary teams is the best way we’ll be able to turn the vision of optimal nutritional care for all patients into a reality,” explains Professor Olle Ljungqvist, Co-chair of ENHA.
Patient groups have called for greater emphasis to be placed on the ways patients can shape their own nutritional care and asked for input from the European Nutrition for HEalth Alliance and the European Patients' Forum/Patients network for MEdical Research and Health (EPF/EGAN).
“Patients can have very specific nutritional needs, particularly when chronic diseases are involved. Empowering patients will enable professionals to better identify and address these needs,” says Nicola Bedlington, Secretary-General of the EPF.
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