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Home  Health Professionals Clinical Services Available Home Enteral Nutrition
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Home Enteral Nutrition
This service is available to patients who cannot obtain adequate nutrition via the normal route (i.e. orally from a normal diet). Enteral nutrition is a way of providing nutrition and fluids via a tube into the digestive tract. Historically this method of ensuring adequate nutrition would have been provided in a hospital setting. However once the patient's medical condition is stable and the patient and/or relatives/carers are trainined in administering the feed, the trend in more recent years has been to discharge to the home environment for on-going care. The Home Enteral Nutrition Service coordinates pre-discharge preparation, provides training and monitors the patient after discharge.
The HENS team can be contacted here
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PINNT
Support group for people requiring tube feeding at home for adults.
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Half PINNT
Support site for children requiring tube feeding at home.
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Link to Nutricia Flocare website
On line training on the use of flocare enteral feeding pumps.
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Updated January 2025 LNDS161H
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