Recommended by Nutrition Services for Care Home Staff
The Birmingham Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service produce and recommend a number of key resources.
This pack supports malnutrition care in a residential and nursing home setting. This pack does not cover Enteral feeding (tube feeding) these referrals and support need to come through our main referral route.
1. Care Home MUST Care Plans (Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool) [pdf]
2. First Line Dietary Advice for Residents with a MUST Score of 1, 2 or more [pdf]
3. SuperShake Recipe, indications of use and measurements [pdf]
4. Quick guide to prescribe in the community (oral nutritional supplements) [pdf]
5. Flow Chart for withdrawing nutritional input [pdf]
6. Nutrition in Palliative Care towards end of life [pdf]
7. Is your resident losing weight despite taking nutritional supplements [pdf]