Care home nutritional choice
Over-reliance on ready meals and insufficient provision of fresh food, limiting personalised meal choices for residents in care settings.
2 items
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2 inquiries
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Care home nutritional choice has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
2 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (2)
F241 — Provision of food and drink
Recommendation: The arrangements and best practice for providing food and drink to elderly patients require constant review, monitoring and implementation.
Speaker not recorded. Source: Department of Health, Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, volume 2 (Cm 8777-II), November 2013
Gov response: Accepted. In its initial response to The Inquiry, Patients First and Foremost, the Government committed to draw up a new set of fundamental standards of care that will sit within the legal requirements that providers …
Accepted
In progress
R28 — Nutritional screening
Recommendation: Health Boards should ensure that all patients have their nutritional status screened on admission to a ward using a recognised nutritional screening tool. Where nutritional problems are identified further assessment should be undertaken to determine an individual care plan. Appropriate …
Words of: Scottish Government, The Scottish Government's Response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report, section 1.3, 18 June 2015
Gov response: The Scottish Government accepts its responsibility for the failings identified in the report and we apologise unreservedly for the suffering and loss caused. We accept in full all of the report's recommendations.
Accepted