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Nursing and Residential Care Homes

 
Dietitians work with nursing and residential homes to provide support to staff on screening for undernutrition and managing residents are risk of undernutrition.  This can involve providing training and resource materials for care home staff.  It also involves working with GPs and care home staff to ensure that prescribed nutritional supplements are being used appropriately. 
 
Please contact our Headquarters at Enderby on 0116 2227170 if you would like more information on this service.
 

Dietetic Referral form for Care Homes

Dietetic Referral form for to be used by residential care home and nursing home staff to refer patients for dietary advice. Please use in conjunction with Food Record Charts.
 

4-Day Food Record Chart

A form for monitoring residents' food intake

 

Flowchart for management of patients requiring oral nutritional support

  

Nutrition screening tool for use in the community

 

Food first for care homes

 

BMI Chart

  
 
 

 

 

Link to the MUST tool on the  BAPEN website