1. How many beds are there in your Trust?
If your Trust comprises of different hospitals, please give the breakdown for each hospital.
2.
a) Does your Trust have a nutrition support team?
b) If so, does the nutrition support team cover all hospital beds within your Trust?
c) What is your nutrition teams’ involvement in ITU?
d) Which major GI surgical procedures are performed in your hospital?
Oesophagogastric resections
Pancreatic resections
Surgery for advanced rectal cancer e.g. ELAPE
3. If your Trust comprises of different hospitals, is there a nutrition support team at each hospital or does one nutrition team cover all hospitals?
4. If you have a nutrition support team in your Trust, please indicate their role:
5. What is the remit of the nutrition support team?
6. Please state the number of staff, WTE (referring to nutrition) and band/grade for each discipline in the nutrition support team:
7. Please state when the nutrition support teams(s) were formed at each hospital or in the Trust.
8. If your Trust does not have a nutrition support team, has there been a business case put forward at any stage for such a team to develop?
9.
a) Do you have a nutrition steering committee in your Trust?
– Or any other nutrition related committee?
b) If so, how does it feed information into the Trust Executive?
10. Does your Trust have a designated Intestinal Failure Unit?