Are you a patient or carer of someone receiving either home parenteral or enteral (tube feeding) nutrition living in Ireland? 

Call on Irish health services to take pledge to end obesity stigma Irish hospitals and health services have been called

‘New Year’s resolutions’ offer little effect on obesity Experts call out negative impact of ‘it’s your fault’ attitude to obesity There is an urgent

Call to offer remission pathway to all with type 2 diabetes  New treatments can achieve disease reversal for most patients

IrSPEN Prize for Best Undergraduate Research Project in Human Nutrition and Dietetics TCD/DIT Joint Degree 2019 Context My name is

BAPEN 2019 Annual Conference ICC Belfast – Tuesday 26th & Wednesday 27th November 2019 Pre-conference teaching day – Monday 25th

Call on health service to treat obesity as a disease Ireland has been criticised for having the lowest spend on

Erin Sullivan presented her poster, “A National Survey of Irish Oncology Patients Examining Nutrition Attitudes and Behaviours and Access to

HAN Awareness Week 5 – 11 August 2019 PATIENT ORGANISATION FOR IRELAND? We want to hear from patients and carers

Patients who lose weight have lower survival rates yet very few are given nutritional information and support Director of the

‘I’ve been poked and prodded but no one has seen me about my diet,’ one cancer patient tells Feelgood. Another,

Three out of five cancer patients don’t see a dietitian as part of their treatment, yet the affects of malnutrition

UCC in collaboration with Breakthrough Cancer Research are delighted to launch their latest free cookbook for cancer patients ‘Healthy Eating

New research has identified a major gap in nutritional support for cancer patients, with more than a third reporting unintentional

One in three cancer patients with weight loss are never seen by a dietitian or provided with nutritional advice, according

We would like to hear your views on the proposed guideline and how we can ensure the objectives of the

IrSPEN Prize for Best Undergraduate Research Project in Human Nutrition and Dietetics TCD/DIT Joint Degree Antje von der Schulenburg, BSc

St Lukes Symposium Advanced Masterclass – Clinical Pearls and Advances in Medicine 2018. “The role of nutrition in future healthcare”

BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION We particularly want to hear from you if you have undergone treatment for cancer in

Bariatric surgery is life-saving and cost-effective but due to pervasive bias, obese patients are not a healthcare priority Hilary Craig

Reduction in cost of care associated with 15% weight loss Savings of €4000 per year per patient to the state

It is disgraceful that current services for intestinal failure patients are not meeting minimum international standards of care, IrSPEN’s Board

‘I could never work again after I got sick, that really affected me’ Every year at least 80 people in

Despite common mechanisms of actions, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists differ in structure, pharmacokinetic profile, and clinical effects. This head-to-head trial

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IrSPEN (Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism), ASOI (Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland)

“The funding for more surgery just isn’t there. But there is the need and we’ve identified the need.” IRELAND IS

Science student Sorcha McElchar has an extremely complicated medical condition. But she tells Joy Orpen, she is leading a very

IrSPEN (Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism) launches Obesity is a Chronic Disease requiring Treatment: A Call to Action

2017 IrSPEN Policy Seminar:  Facing the obesity challenge in Ireland 1. Differentiating between strategies for prevention of obesity and treatment  

Potential of earlier detection and treatment of disease related malnutrition with oral nutrition supplements to release acute care bed capacity.

The Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (IrSPEN) hosted a round table discussion on the role of lifestyle factors,

HIQA releases report on nutrition in Irish hospitals Hospitals must implement screening for all patients and have a nutrition steering

HEN is a key area identified by IrSPEN for guideline development Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) is a key area identified