Webinar: Patients’ needs on long-term nutritional support by MA Healthcare Virtual

About This Webinar

Patients’ needs on long-term nutritional support

This session will focus on the long-term needs of people on HAN. This is a broad subject with many facets in the provision of supporting people on HAN, we have proven homecare networks but as we experience changes to this, are patients on HAN being truly supported? Are we able to offer the support they need? As we live in worrying times, vulnerable people feel even more isolated or fearful for their medical care/treatment and essential nutrition. We can discuss how we learn from our current practice to provide more flexible and responsive support for those on HAN.

This talk is co-facilitated by Carolyn Wheatley, co-founder of PINNT

Presenters

Neil Wilson

Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

Neil has been a consultant advisor for the nutrition webinar week and is chairing tonight’s session. Neil has worked in the Faculty since 2007 as a Senior Lecturer in Nursing and currently holds the position as Academic Lead for Adult and Mental Health Nursing Admissions. He teaches Undergraduate and postgraduate Nursing, and previous to this was Nutrition Nurse Specialist at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.

Neil’s research focussed on a PhD - The nutritional needs of people living with COPD: a concurrent mixed methods study of the role of the General Practice Nurse.

Carolyn Wheatley

Chair, PINNT

Carolyn Wheatley is a HPN patient and co-founder of PINNT (A support & advocacy group for people on Home Artificial Nutrition). She was diagnosed with Hollow Visceral Myopathy at the age of 21 and has been on HPN for thirty six years. She has been a consultant or patient expert on numerous NICE guideline panels, her latest contributions have resulted in publications such as the ESPEN Guideline on home parenteral nutrition and COVID papers. She is currently a BAPEN executive officer and secretary of an international patient association.

Angela Cole

Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children with Intestinal Failure, The Royal London Hospital (Barts Health)

Alison Young

Nurse Consultant in Nutrition, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

Alison became a Nutrition Specialist Nurse at the RLBUHT in 1998. During her early career she was keen to develop her knowledge and skills in Nutritional care and management and undertook a post graduate honours degree then an MSc in Research. Once in the role of a nutrition specialist nurse her practical skills, experience and knowledge base in the field of nutritional support grew enabling her to develop the nutrition nurse role within the organisation and across wider organisational boundaries. Since her appointment in 2002 as the first Consultant Nurse in Nutrition in the UK, Alison has continued to reflect on her practice and service delivery to ensure her practice is evidence based. The nutrition service grows from strength to strength leading the way for clinical excellence. In April 2016, the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust developed “R Homecare HPN service”. This is the only NHS HPS Homecare service in the UK and has grown from strength to strength supporting patients on Home Nutrition/hydration throughout Merseyside, and beyond.

Natalie Welsh

Lead Nutrition Nurse, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Natalie trained at De Montfort University and after qualifying in 2001 returned home to Devon where she began her career as a staff nurse on a colorectal surgical ward. Natalie has experience as a prison nurse as well as working for Fresenius Kabi and Calea as a home nutrition nurse. This was where Natalie really found her passion for nutrition support. The role, although geographically challenging, was rewarding as Natalie experienced the difference she was able to make by supporting people at home. A secondment opportunity soon arose to work with the nutrition support team at the prestigious St Marks in Harrow in which Calea and Fresenius Kabi released Natalie for nearly 3 years to continue to build her portfolio of experience in caring for some of the most complex patients requiring nutritional care.

In order to best support her family, Natalie and her husband decided to move up north and Natalie began a substantive post at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Natalie’s commitment to improve nutrition with the support of senior nursing leadership has started to see the profile of the service gain real momentum. Natalie was nominated for a British Journal of Nursing; Nutrition Nurse of the Year award in 2017 and was appointed to the NNNG committee, which she describes as a real opportunity to continue her development both locally and nationally.