Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what clinical guidelines his Department has developed on assessing and managing the nutritional needs of patients with covid-19 (a) in hospital and (b) on discharge into the community.
Nutrition assessment tools like the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool are used in hospitals and in the community to assess a person’s individual needs and can be used to develop a care plan.
There are no specific nutritional assessment or nutritional management tools for patients with COVID-19 either in hospital or in the community.