MALNUTRITION CAROUSEL

Early day motion 200, tabled 15 January 2001 by Howard Stoate (Labour). Signed by 50 members.

That this House acknowledges that malnutrition is a significant United Kingdom public health problem affecting up to two million people, which causes avoidable ill health and annually costs the NHS millions of pounds; notes that malnutrition is frequently undetected and untreated where malnourished patients circulate between hospital and the community on a malnutrition carousel because they are undernourished; welcomes the new guidelines produced by the Mulnutrition Advisory Group to help health professionals detect and manage mulnutrition in the community; and calls on the Government to support and endorse the use of the guidelines in the NHS to help reduce the unacceptable incidence of malnutrition throughout the community.

Signatures by party: Labour 35, Liberal Democrat 11, Labour/Co-operative 3, Conservative 1.