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Elderly: Nutrition

Volume 462: debated on Tuesday 10 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to prevent older people suffering from malnutrition in hospital. (148534)

[holding answer 9 July 2007]: As part of the Dignity in Care campaign, which has initially focused on the care needs of older people, I held a Nutrition Summit in March 2007, which was attended by leading charities, clinicians, nutrition experts and care home representatives. At that event, I announced that we would be working to produce a joint departmental and stakeholder Nutrition Action Plan to tackle the issues of nutrition and nutritional care. The action plan is being developed and applies to all adults. It is planned to be published this summer.