The Copenhagen ONCA Conference
May 16 & 17 2022
The Copenhagen ONCA Conference
May 2022, Denmark hosted the international ONCA conference “Creating Equality in Nutritional Care”.
Renowned experts in nutritional care, patient organisations, and policymakers met in Copenhagen to address inequalities in nutritional care, identify and tackle barriers and share achievements and good practices on the implementation of optimal nutritional care in policy and practice.
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Optimal Nutritional Care for All
Launched in 2014, the Optimal Nutritional Care for All (ONCA) campaign is a multi-stakeholder initiative to facilitate greater screening for risk of disease-related malnutrition/undernutrition and nutritional care implementation across Europe.
The campaign supports national professional societies, associations and patient groups in public health and health care in 19 countries to implement nutritional risk screening and optimal nutritional care. The European Nutrition for Health Alliance (ENHA) provides structure, coordinates, inspires and facilitates.
Creating equality in nutritional care
Malnutrition and undernutrition affect over 30 Million European citizens and place an unacceptable burden on European citizens and health care budgets.
Integrating patient-centred nutritional care in health policies will significantly contribute to prevention, better patient outcomes and improved quality of life. Moreover, ample scientific evidence shows that optimising nutritional care is a very (cost-) effective measure.
Despite this overwhelming scientific evidence, malnutrition is often underdiagnosed and under-treated, causing unacceptable inequalities between people and countries.
Optimal nutritional care must be considered a human right and patients should have equitable, timely access to the nutritional care needed to achieve their best possible outcome.
The Conference Programme
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Day 1 Creating Equality in Nutritional Care
Time
Event
09.00 - 10.30
Pre-conference patient session
Tivoli Hotel Conference Centre
10.30 - 11.00
Registration & coffee
Børsen Copenhagen
11.00 - 11.10
Welcome and agenda conference chairs
Olle Ljungqvist
Chairman European Nutrition for Health Alliance
Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen
ONCA Denmark
11.10 - 11.25
Health for all: Equity in Nutritional Care
Niels Sandø-Pedersen
Director of Health Promotion and Inequality, Danish Health Authority
11.25 - 12.30
Patients, Policy and Practice
Inequality in nutritional care in practice: Real-life experiences from a COPD patient
Caroline Hedsund, Board member, Danish Lung Association
Begin with the end in mind: Relevant data and end-points for Good Nutritional Practice
Mette Holst, ONCA Denmark, Danish Nutrition Science Centre
New Danish guidelines for disease related malnutrition care including the entire patient journey
Tatjana Hejgaard, Senior Advisor, Danish Health Authority
Equal access to nutritional care and treatment for all and how is this achieved within the Danish health care system.
Camilla Hersom, Deputy Director of Danish Regions, Head of the department of Health and Social Policy
12.30 - 13.05
Expert Panel Session: Joining forces at European level
Moderator: Olle Ljungqvist, Chair of the European Nutrition for Health Alliance
Pernille Weiss
Member of European Parliament and Chair of the Parliamentary Interest Group on Obesity and Resilient Health Systems
Kaisa Immonen
Director of Policy, European Patient’s Forum, EPF
Rocco Barazzoni
President European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, ESPEN
Annemieke van Ginkel
President, European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians, EFAD
13.00 - 14.00
Optimal networking lunch for all
14.00 - 14.15
In safe hands: Optimal safety through nutritional care
Vibeke Rischel
Deputy CEO, Danish Society for Patient Safety
14.15 - 15.15
International Good Practice Updates
Nutrition in the transition between hospital and community
Tina Munk, Denmark
Nutrition Education in Medical Schools (NEMS)
Cristina Cuerda, Spain
Value and recognition of diagnosing and prescribing nutrition
Tommy Cederholm, Sweden
Organising multidisciplinary nutritional care after COVID
Anne Slotegraaf, The Netherlands
15.15 - 15.45
Networking, refreshing break and group photo
15.45 - 16.30
Campaigning for equality in nutritional care – to all, from all, overall
Nutritional care is a Human Right
Diana Cardenas-Braz, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad El Bosque, Colombia
EU4Nutrition & The European Health Union
Joost Wesseling, Executive Director ENHA
#Ernæringnytter: Political & public awareness campaign
Anders Kroman Liin, FMF
Day 2 Campaigning for Optimal Nutritional Care for All
Time
Event
09.00 - 09.10
Welcome by the Conference chairs
Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen
ONCA Denmark
Annemieke van Ginkel
ENHA Board member
09.10 - 09.25
Report from the pre-conference patient session
Cees Smit
Patient & Nutrition
09.25 - 09.40
Update ONCA strategy & action plan 2022
Joost Wesseling
Executive Director ENHA
09.40 - 10.50
ONCA Policy Academy: Shaping your local policy agenda (Interactive break out workshops)
Shaping your local policy agenda:
1. Impactful Malnutrition Awareness Weeks & policy seminars
2. The power of patient involvement in your campaign
3. Using health data to create awareness
4. Nutrition in medical education
10.50 - 11.15
Networking refreshing break
11.15 - 11.35
Report back from the break out session
Break out Chairs
11.35 - 12.45
The added value of optimal nutritional care
Moderator: Olle Ljunqvist
The added value of systematically including nutrition in cancer treatment
Alessandro Laviano, Italy
Malnutrition: effective strategies to treat it effectively
Nicole Erickson, Germany
Value of nutritional therapy in health economics
Mark Nuijten, The Netherlands
Interactive panel & audience discussion
12.45 - 13.00
Wrap up by the chairs
13.00
Lunch and good bye
