Nutritional Standards for Adults

The NACC Nutritional Standard provides essential guidance and support for all those involved in care catering. If we are to provide the best quality services for those in our care it is vitally important to promote good nutrition and hydration in addition to raising awareness of malnutrition in care settings.

The Aims and Objectives of the Nutritional Standard are:
• To simplify existing standards in line with current best practice
• To unify standards across all care settings, so as to ensure food and
beverage services are seamless across all health and social care settings and in line with the expectations of monitoring bodies
• To produce a single standard that will facilitate choice menus which have the capacity to meet the nutritional needs of all, including those at risk of malnutrition and those with special dietary needs
• To alert providers to the importance of examining the nutritional value of the whole menu
• To allow choice and flexibility for service users by taking into account overall nutritional intake of an individual and the menu capacity, rather than concentrating entirely on the nutritional content of each individual meal or component
• To move away from the concept that component weights are the only means of ensuring meals are of an appropriate nutritional standard
• To promote nutritional screening as part of this nutritional standard

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Nutritional Standards for Adults