2nd Mar 2012 - 00:00
Abstract
Dame Jo Williams, who chairs the Care Quality Commission, will be speaking at a national forum looking into nutrition and dignity for elderly people in hospitals and care homes.
To be held in London on June 14, it is being organised by Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum and Westminster Health Forum Keynote Seminar. Others lined up to address the event include Dianne Jeffrey, chairman of Age UK and Sir Keith Pearson, who chairs both the NHS Confederation and the Partnership on Dignity in Care. Part of the seminar will be chaired by Dr John Pugh MP, chair of the Patient and Public Involvement in Health and the Social Care All-Party Parliamentary Group. The event follows up on the recent launch of the Nursing and Care Quality Forum by Prime Minister David Cameron, the release of findings from the CQC Dignity and Nutrition Inspection (DANI) programme and the call by the Minister of State for Care Services Paul Burstow, among others, for nurses to sign a new Dignity Code to prevent abuse. Other topics for discussion include: • Implications for regulation following the Dignity and Nutrition Inspection Programme • Driving up standards on dignity - looking forward to the NICE social care quality standards • Improving and learning from user experiences - creating a more personalised care system • Prospects for the caring professions following the Nursing Quality Forum and 'red tape challenge' • The impact of NHS restructuring and reform for nutrition and dignity The draft agenda can be downloaded by visiting www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/agenda/elderly-nutrition-agenda.pdf
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