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nicola cook
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Comment on: Rise in malnutrition on NHS wards
As a member of the acute SALT team I find that I am unable to my job as well as I would like due to the lack of nurses around on the wards especially at lunchtime. I do also find however that the handovers that nurses give at the end of shifts often omit any reference to swallowing recommendations. Patients often don't eat their meals as they are unable to feed themselves and there are just not enough trained staff to help them. When a patient has been put on a puree diet they often require encouragement as they just don't like it! Who can blame them - but, my point is if a nurse does not sit with that patient and encourage them , the food goes cold and the patient is even more unlikely to eat it. The other thing is that the ensures and other supplements are sweet and sickly which most of my golden oldies do not like.
