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Better together

2023. Better Together is about improving parent and carer access to food when staying with their child in hospital.

Tags: Nutrition

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/better-together

Virtual Multidisciplinary Feeding Clinic

2022. The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is leading the way in addressing complex feeding issues, using videoconferencing to provide care remotely.

Tags: Virtual care, Paediatric, Nutrition

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/virtual-multidisciplinary-feeding-clinic

I AM: Identifying and Addressing Malnutrition

2021. The I AM Project aims to implement a more sustainable and accurate screening process at Prince of Wales Hospital for patients who are malnourished, or at risk of malnutrition.

Tags: Nutrition

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/i-am

Increasing the Appropriateness of Dietetic Referrals

2017. This project addressed barriers experienced by nursing staff when using the malnutrition screening tool, by introducing staff education, streamlined education pathways and a cheat sheet for nursing staff.

Tags: Nutrition, Unwarranted clinical variation, Referral

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/dietetic-referrals

Healthy Lifestyles Project for newly arrived young people

2021. This project addressed two significant gaps in service provision for newly arrived young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds: prevention of rapid weight gain during the settlement and post arrival period; intervention for weight issues for

Tags: Paediatric, Nutrition

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/healthy-lifestyles-project

Waist Less: Part of the Sustainable Connections for Overweight and Obesity in Paediatrics Project

2017. The Waist Less project aims to improve clinical processes and resources at the CHW, to increase the identification and management of children with obesity and their families. It is part of the Sustainable Connections for Overweight and Obesity in

Tags: Paediatric, Integrated care, Nutrition

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/waist-less

Redesigning mid-meal safety, nutritional accuracy and compliance, knowledge and satisfaction (SNACKS)

2019. This project looks at how the tea-run to adult patients at Westmead Hospital in three wards can be improved to meet the nutritional and individual dietary needs of patients.

Tags: Nutrition, Patient safety

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/redesigning-mid-meal-snacks

Yhunger: healthy living skills for at-risk young people

2021. Yhunger has developed educational resources and training workshops for youth workers that focus on ‘hands on’ skills development with young people.

Local health district award

Tags: Nutrition, Allied health

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/yhunger

Planning for Gastronomy Success

2017. St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney (SVHS) improved patient information, treatment procedures and staff education, to ensure the placement of gastronomy feeding tubes aligned with best practice and Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) guidelines.

Tags: Nutrition, Gastroenterology, Unwarranted clinical variation

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/planning-for-gastronomy-success

Finger food menu on the specialised dementia and delirium ward

2020. The introduction of finger foods will potentially: increase the opportunity to encourage or enable self-feeding; improve quality of life; increase oral intake and promote weight stabilization while in hospital; and improve the nutritional intake of

Tags: Nutrition, Aged health

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/finger-food-menu-delirium-ward