Abstract:The adult multidisciplinary nutrition support team (NST) at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) was funded in 1998 for inpatients requiring short-term parenteral nutrition (PN). Patients requiring home PN (HPN) were transferred to Intestinal Failure centres (IFC) for HPN training and/or specialised surgery. Development of the specialist expertise within the UHW NST led to a minority of patients being trained locally, a service that was subsequently commissioned by Health Commission Wales (HCW) in 2003. This… Show more
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