Care home nutritional choice
Over-reliance on ready meals and insufficient provision of fresh food, limiting personalised meal choices for residents in care settings.
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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.
Gov response: The government published "Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First" (Cm 8777) on 19 November 2013, responding to all 290 recommendations of the Francis Report. This followed an initial response "Patients First and Foremost" …
Accepted
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.
Gov response: Section 4.1 of the Scottish Government's response acknowledges the report's criticisms of specific elements of nursing care, including the unsatisfactory assessment and recording of patients' nutritional status. The government unreservedly accepts in full the report's …
Accepted