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Doctors 'should do more to help malnourished patients'
Doctors and nurses have been urged to take better care of elderly patients who are leaving NHS hospitals malnourished. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) recommends all hospital in-patients and care home residents should be weighed and measured on admission to detect malnutrition. It follows estimates by experts that around 40 per cent of all people admitted to hospital are suffering from malnutrition.
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This can have serious consequences for patients including greater vulnerability to infection, delayed wound healing, impaired function of heart and lungs and depression. Campaigners believe older patients are treated as "second class citizens."
Patients underfed
"All too often we hear that older people's nutritional needs are being overlooked and their lives are being put at risk," Gordon Lishman, director general of charity Age Concern said. "Access to food is a basic human right, yet older people tell us they are sometimes treated as second-class citizens in hospitals because they are not getting the food they need, or help with eating and drinking."
The new guidelines also advise screening outpatients at their first appointment and specialist nutrition support nurses employed in hospitals.
Malnutrition costs the UK more than £7.3billion a year, according to experts. Malnourished patients stay in hospital for longer, have a higher mortality rate and are three times as likely to develop complications during surgery.
Dr Mike Stroud, of Southampton University's Institute of Human Nutrition, said malnutrition was "a gigantic problem and enormously costly".
He welcomed the new NICE guidelines adding: "The message that you should not let your patients starve has got to be heard by healthcare professionals everywhere."
This is a loaded subject! Why aren't families taking care of their elderly relatives? There are insufficient nursing staff in hospitals to feed all patients who are in need of help. In some instances, the hospital food is only fit to be thrown away. And finally, some elderly folk choose NOT to eat as they approach the end of their lives, and choosing this way of 'departing' is pain-free.
- Paula, Hereford, UK
As a care provider, we all know malnutrition can cause a lot of problem. We all want to give a better care to the patients, but it is easy to say. Do you ever think how severe the shortage is in nursing?
