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2. British Dietetic Association • The British Dietetic Association, founded in 1936, is the professional association for registered dietitians in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is the nation’s largest organisation of food and nutrition professionals with over 6,000 members. • Registered dietitians are the only qualified health professionals that assess, diagnose and treat diet and nutrition problems at an individual and wider public health level. Uniquely, dietitians use the most up to date public health and scientific research on food, health and disease, which they translate into practical guidance to enable people to make appropriate lifestyle and food choices. • Dietitians are the only nutrition professionals to be statutorily regulated, and governed by an ethical code, to ensure that they always work to the highest standard. Dietitians work in the NHS, private practice, industry, education, research, sport, media, public relations, publishing, Non Government Organisations and government. Their advice influences food and health policy across the spectrum from government, local communities and individuals.

3. Mind the Hunger Gap • BDA Campaign for 2011/12... Stamp our missing meals in the UK • www.mindthehungergap.com • More than 3 million people in the UK are at risk of malnutrition with the vast majority, about 93%, living in the community setting, 5% in residential care and 2% in hospital. • One million older people living in their own homes in the United Kingdom suffer from malnutrition. • Greater use of healthcare and costs associated with malnutrition mean: > 65% more GP visits; > 82% more hospital admissions; > 30% longer hospital stay. • The health and social care costs in the United Kingdom directly associated with malnutrition and its impact comes to more than £13 billion per annum (based on 2007 prices).

4. Mind the Hunger Gap Mind the Hunger Gap aims to highlight: • Malnutrition and its impact costs over £13 billion across the UK (BAPEN2010). It is vital to protect current services, and extend provision to reduce these spiralling costs of care packages and readmissions. • Protect one meal a day by ring-fencing funding for community meal provision at a local level. • Dietitians have the expertise to lead the nutrition pathway across the whole health and social care system. • Social isolation and fragmented services have left older people excluded and invisible. Food is a basic human right and it’s everybody’s responsibility to stamp out starvation in their community. • With social care budgets being devolved for local implementation, there is an opportunity now to plan and promote collaborative solutions at a local level.