Implementing nutrition screening in community care for older people

Video 1 shows the highlights from the INSCCOPe research project, led by Bournemouth University working in partnership with Wessex AHSN and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

The research ran in parallel with the implementation of a new procedure around malnutrition screening and treatment within the community, and looked at the barriers and enablers to implementing this new procedure within Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

This video features the Principal Investigator, Professor Jane Murphy from Bournemouth University, Kathy Wallis, Associate Director from Wessex AHSN and Julia Lake, Deputy Director of Nursing, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. See the video below:

Video 2 shows the highlights from the INSCCOPe project and features some of the team members and practitioners from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust sharing their experiences of the project and the benefits it has had on their patients, see the video below:

These have been developed during the project.

January 2020

Update on: Implementing nutrition screening in community care for older people 

February 2020

Update on: Eating and Drinking Well with Dementia: A Guide for Family Carers and Friends

The guide is now available to download from the training resources page for free, please visit the training page. 

Nutrition Wheel – now available!

The Ageing and Dementia Research Centre has worked in collaboration with Wessex Academic Health Science Network and the Patients Association to develop the nutrition wheel.

Please visit the Wessex Academic Health Science Network's webpage to read more about the nutrition wheel and to order yourself a copy on the Wessex Academic Health Science Network website.

​20/11/2018 – Professor Jane Murphy presents findings from phase 1 at the BAPEN’s 2018 Annual Conference poster session

Implementing Nutrition Screening in the Community – results from phase one of a prospective process evaluation of a new procedure for screening and treatment of malnutrition in community care for older people (INSCCOPe – phase one)

Download the poster (pdf 630kb)

​19/11/2018 – The impact of the Nutrition Project Lead discussed in Complete Nutrition

The findings from phase 1 of our study highlighted that community nurses felt there was a gap in the provision of specialist dietetic support, due to a lack of community-based dietician. As a result, a Nutrition Project Lead post was introduced in March 2018, as a six-month pilot project. The post was taken up by a registered dietician, Grace Paterson.

Grace provided staff with training on malnutrition, the ‘MUST’ tool, and the new procedure for screening and treatment of malnutrition. She ran a dietician helpline to provide teams with specialist advice, created a two-year training plan, and developed Nutrition Link roles within the teams to continue to support staff and drive the procedure forward.

Grace just published an article discussing the results of her work in the Complete Nutrition.

Read the full article (pdf 107kb)

03/10/2018
The participating staff within Integrated Community Teams are now completing the third and final NoMAD questionnaire to help us understand their experiences of screening and treatment of malnutrition following the introduction of the new procedure. We are also interviewing the participants to explore their views in more depth. We aim to complete the data collection by mid-November.

26/09/2018
Based on the results of the interviews with the Procedure Design and Delivery Group (PDDG), we have updated the NoMAD questionnaire with three additional questions exploring the impact of electronic patient records system (RiO) on the work around nutritional screening and care planning.

19/09/2018
The final phase of data collection began today. We start by interviewing the Procedure Design and Delivery Group (PDDG). We will explore the PDDG’s observations and experiences of how the design and delivery of the procedure have gone. The interviews will inform whether any additional areas should be explored in the upcoming questionnaire.

12/09/2018
Dr Mike Bracher presented findings from the first phase of the study at the British Sociological Association 50th Medical Sociology Conference.

20/08/2018
Dr Daria Tkacz joined the team to take the lead on the data collection and analysis for the second phase of the study.

07/02/2018
Dr Mike Bracher delivered a half-day seminar exploring the principles and applications of Normalization Process Theory (NPT) in healthcare implementation. View the presentations.

Dr Bracher presenting the findings from baseline

22/11/2017
Dr Mike Bracher presented findings from baseline to the BAPEN 2017 Annual Conference poster session.

Download the poster (pdf 1.3mb)

27/09/2017
Baseline and phase 1 interim findings were presented to the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Nutrition and Hydration Committee.

10/07/2017
We started the data collection for the first phase of the study.  Drawing on findings from interviews at the baseline, we have expanded the questionnaire to explore some emerging issues, within the wider sample.  These include: access to dietetic services; reasons for non-completion of training; factors mitigating engagement in non-mandatory training. [Update: we completed this in 09/2017]

01/05/2017
We began the baseline data collection to explore staff’s experiences of screening and treatment of malnutrition prior to the introduction of the new procedure. We are asking staff within Integrated Community Teams (ICTs) and Older Persons Mental Health (OPMH) Teams to complete the NoMAD questionnaire and to take part in an interview exploring their responses in more depth. We are also interviewing staff involved in the Procedure Development and Delivery Group (PDDG). [Update: we completed this in 07/2017)