Food First Bedfordshire Shortlisted in National HSJ Award

Bedfordshire's Food First Team have been shortlisted in the Value and Improvement in Medicines Management category of the national Health Service Journal ‘Value in Healthcare’ Awards 2015.

The Food First project tackles dehydration and malnutrition in the elderly by encouraging a healthy diet to promote weight gain and good hydration through the use of every day foods, as opposed to expensive food supplements.

Cathy Forbes, Bedfordshire’s Food First Project Lead said:  Making nutrition and hydration a priority has huge benefits and has an enormous impact including reducing pressure ulcers, falls and admissions to hospital, which are all more likely if you are dehydrated and undernourished.”

Pictured - Patricia Nash, Oscar Fisher-Smith, Lorraine Hosey, Michelle Dewar (left-right top row) Vittoria Romano, Jayne Wells, Eleanor Tildelsey, Georgina Atwell.