The Dietetic Department will be promoting Malnutrition Awareness Week (MAW) with a stand at the main entrance at CRH and HRI this week, Monday, 10th to Friday, 14th November 2025.

MAW aims to increase understanding of the dangers, risk factors, and signs of malnutrition and dehydration among health and social care professionals, community groups, the public, parliamentarians, and policymakers.

On Tuesday, 11th November between 10:00 - 11.30am, the team will be visiting CRH wards to discuss malnutrition and offer training on the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST).

On Thursday, 13th November the team will be visiting HRI wards to hand out water bottles for Thirsty Thursday, and offer MUST training.

One to one MUST training can also be arranged for ward colleagues. Please email Shamila.tufail@cht.nhs.uk or Sienna.Kane@cht.nhs.uk for this to be arranged.