Morning, 3rd February 2009
Westminster, London SW1
with
Dr Rekha Elaswarapu
Healthcare Commission Lead on Older People and Joint Chair, Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board in charge of Regulation and Inspection
&
Gordon Lishman
Director General, Age Concern and Chair, Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board
Seminar
With the Government aiming to significantly improve nutritional care for elderly people, this seminar looks at whether the plans are on track to deliver real change.
It is almost a year since the Department of Health introduced its Nutrition Action Plan, Improving Nutritional Care and set up a stakeholder board to oversee its implementation. This initiative came in response to statistics indicating unprecedented levels of malnourishment amongst elderly people taken into professional care.
This event will bring together policy makers and key stakeholders as the Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board is due to wind up its role. Planned sessions ask:
· One year on, how well nourished are the nation’s elderly?;
· Latest thinking on the causes of malnutrition in elderly people;
· Assessing the progress from the user’s point of view; and
· The way ahead: implementing the new policies.
This important meeting is organised on the basis of strict impartiality by the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum.
Speakers and Delegates
We are delighted that Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Healthcare Commission Lead on Older People and Joint Chair of the Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board in charge of Regulation and Inspection, and Gordon Lishman, Director General, Age Concern and Chair, Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board, will be delivering keynote addresses at this event.
Other confirmed speakers include: Lynne Berry OBE, Chief Executive, WRVS; Debbie Dzik-Jurasz, Lead on Elderly Nutrition, Royal College of Nursing; Professor Marinos Elia, Chair, BAPEN; Paul Kirwan, Chief Executive, Carers Network Westminster; Dr Joanne Lunn, Senior Nutrition Scientist, British Nutrition Foundation; Liz Mandeville, Advisor on Older People’s Issues, Better Government for Older People; Shirley Murgraff, hospital service user; Sue Ullmann, National Chair, National Association of Care Catering; Professor Christina Victor, University of Reading and the British Society of Gerontology; and Dr Lisa Wilson, Science Director, Caroline Walker Trust.
Terry Rooney MP, Chair, Work and Pensions Select Committee, and Baroness Greengross, Member, All- Party Parliamentary Group on Ageing and Older People, have kindly agreed to chair parts of this seminar.
We have already had strong interest in this event, with places reserved for senior government officials from the National Audit Office; Food Standards Agency Wales; the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government.
Places have also been reserved for West Sussex County Council, Young’s Seafood, British Society of Gerontology, Munro & Forster, Archimedes Pharma UK, Compass Group, Sodex, Age Concern England, Dorset County Council, CCA, Wm Morrison Supermarkets, Green Gourmet, Newcastle University, Southern Cross Healthcare, Anchor Trust, GSL UK, University of Hertfordshire, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, New Cross Hospital, The Vegan Society, Care Partners Trust, ISS Mediclean, MA Healthcare, Journal of Dementia Care and Nursing Times.
We expect further speakers and attendees to be a senior and informed group numbering more than 100, including Members of both Houses of Parliament, senior government officials involved in this area of public policy, businesses involved in nutrition, and other related sectors, including social care, medicine and voluntary organisations, together with representatives of the trade and national press.
Output and About Us
A key output of the seminar will be a transcript of the proceedings, sent out within a week of the event to Ministers and officials at Defra, the FSA, the Department of Health and the Healthcare Commission, as well as other departments affected by the issues, Parliamentarians with a special interest in these areas, and other agencies. It will also be made available more widely. It will include transcripts of all speeches and questions and answers sessions from the day, along with access to PowerPoint presentations, speakers’ biographies, the attendee list, agenda and sponsor information. It is made available subject to strict restrictions on public use, similar to those for Select Committee Uncorrected Evidence, and is intended to provide timely information for interested parties who are unable to attend on the day.
All delegates will receive free PDF copies and are invited to contribute to the content.
The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum is strictly impartial and cross-party, and draws on the considerable support it receives from within Parliament and Government, and amongst the wider stakeholder community. The Forum has no policy agenda of its own. Forum events are frequently the platform for major policy statements from senior Ministers, regulators and other officials, opposition speakers and senior opinion formers in industry and interest groups. Events
Options and charges are as follows:
* Places at Nutrition and the Elderly (including refreshments and PDF copy of the transcripts) are £190 plus VAT (£218.50);
* Concessionary rate places for small charities, unfunded individuals and those in similar circumstances are £80 plus VAT (£92). Please be sure to apply for this at the time of booking.
For those who cannot attend:
* Copies of the briefing document, including full transcripts of all speeches and the question and comment sessions and further articles from interested parties, will be available approximately 7 days after the event for £95 plus VAT (£109.25);
* Concessionary rate: £50 plus VAT (£57.50).
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Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum Keynote Seminar: Nutrition and the Elderly
Timing: 3rd February 2009
Venue: Westminster, London SW1
09.00 – 09.15 Registration
09.15 – 09.20 Chairman’s opening remarks
Baroness Greengross, Vice-chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ageing and Older People and Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre
09.20 – 10.00 How well nourished are the nation’s elderly?
Themes: Are the nutritional requirements of older people being adequately met? How do their dietary needs differ from those of younger adults?
Professor Marinos Elia, BAPEN
Dr Joanne Lunn, Senior Nutrition Scientist, British Nutrition Foundation
Senior representative, hospital catering organisation
Questions and comments from the floor
10.00 – 10.40 The latest thinking on the causes of malnutrition in elderly people
Themes: How, according to research, are changes in modern dietary trends and life-style putting the elderly at risk of malnutrition? Do regional, social and ethnic variables have an impact? What part do medical conditions and clinical practice play? What is the influence of living conditions? What is the view from the older generation?
Professor Christina R Victor, University of Reading and British Society of Gerontology
Liz Mandeville, Advisor on Older People’s Issues, Better Government for Older People
Shirley Murgraff, hospital service user
Senior representative, GP
Questions and comments from the floor
10.40 – 10.45 Chairman’s closing remarks
Baroness Greengross, Vice-chair, Ageing and Older People All-Party Parliamentary Group and Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre
10.45 – 11.05 Coffee
11.05 – 11.10 Chairman’s opening remarks
Terry Rooney MP, Chair, Work and Pensions Select Committee
11.10 – 11.25 How successful has the plan been in the target environment
Themes: What was the background to this initiative and what were the hoped for goals? How much has
been achieved and what still needs to be done?
Senior official, health
11.25 – 11.40 Improving Nutritional Care: One Year On
Themes: Following the inception of the Joint Nutrition Action Plan ‘Improving Nutritional Care’, how much progress has been made? Have the proposals improved the nutritional experience in the care environment?
Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Lead on Older People, Healthcare Commission and Joint Chair, Regulation and
Inspection, Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board
11.40 – 12.00 Assessing progress from the user perspective
Themes: As efforts are made to improve nutritional care, are the changes being felt at ground level?
Gordon Lishman, Director General, Age Concern and Chair, Nutritional Action Plan Delivery Board
12.00 – 12.15 Keynote questions and comments session
With DoH representative, Dr Rekha Elaswarapu, Healthcare Commission and Gordon Lishman, Age Concern
12.15 – 12.55 The way ahead: Implementing the policies for the future
Themes: How can care associations better serve the needs of those at risk? What can be done to help elderly people to get their individual needs met? Is the training of those who could identify those at risk sufficient? In light of an increasingly elderly population, how will authorities and carers meet the nutritional requirements of the elderly? How can informal carers be better supported in their role?
Sue Ullmann, National Chair of the National Association of Care Caterers
Debbie Dzik-Jurasz, Royal College of Nursing
Lisa Wilson, Science Director, Caroline Walker Trust
Lynne Berry OBE, Chief Executive, WRVS
Paul Kirwan, Chief Executive, Carers Network Westminster
Questions and comments from the floor
12.55 – 13.00 Chairman’s closing remarks and WF&NF thanks and announcements
Terry Rooney MP, Chair, Work and Pensions Select Committee
Peter van Gelder, Director, Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum
Draft agenda subject to change
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