Malnutrition Awareness Week 5th - 12th October 2020

What are the goals of the week?

The goals of UK Malnutrition Awareness Week 2020 are to:

Raise awareness of malnutrition (and dehydration) among the public and encourage the use of self-screening tools
Help health and social care professionals understand their role in preventing and managing malnutrition and understand the importance of routinely screening for malnutrition
Help people working in the voluntary sector understand what they can do to help identify people who may be at risk of malnutrition
Demonstrate what good nutritional care looks like and help organisations and individuals achieve it
Increase investment in treatment and prevention of malnutrition and engage key stakeholders and policy makers
Make sure the wider public sector, local and national government, commercial organisations, third sector and voluntary sector organisations understand what they can do to tackle malnutrition

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