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 20 countries to implement nutritional risk screening and optimal nutritional care. The European Nutrition for Health Alliance (ENHA) provides structure, coordinates, inspires and facilitates. ENHA also supports the Malnutrition Awareness Week (MAW) initiatives of ONCA countries to raise awareness and promote better nutritional care.
EU4Nutrition
Through the EU4Nutrition programme, ENHA and ONCA engage with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, to secure nutrition care in European Union’s policies, and programmes and in the recommendations to its Member States. The EU4Nutrition LIVE session will be live streamed throughout Europe and beyond.
From Awareness to Access: Delivering Optimal Nutritional Care to Every Patient
Malnutrition and undernutrition affect over 30 Million European citizens and place an unacceptable burden on European citizens and health care budgets.
Integrating patient-centered nutritional care in health policies will significantly contribute to prevention, better patient outcomes, and improved quality of life. Moreover, ample scientific evidence shows that optimizing nutritional care is a very (cost-) effective measure.
Despite this overwhelming scientific evidence, malnutrition is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, 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 overall aim of the conference was to provide tools and background to implement nutritional care plans for all citizens, whether at home or in a health care facility.
A Nutritional Care Policy Summit
This year’s conference was a landmark gathering of professionals, policymakers, and advocates dedicated to combating malnutrition and improving nutritional care across Europe.
The conference was co-hosted by the French ONCA team, which includes the Le Collectif, the French society for clinical nutrition and metabolism (SFNCM), the French Patients’ Association, the active scientific societies leading in interdisciplinary collaboration, representatives of the Ministry of Health, and many more.
The Programme
Please find the programme for days 1 and 2 below.
Day 1 A EUROPEAN NUTRITIONAL CARE POLICY SUMMIT
Shaping local policies in a pan-European perspective
Day 2 THE INTERACTIVE ONCA WORKSHOPS
- Nutritional Education in Medical Schools: The Game Changer in Health Systems
Moderators: Cristina Cuerda & Pedro Barata (EMSA) - EU Session: European Leadership Turning Policy into Practice
Moderators: Alessandro Laviano, Adela Maghear - LIFE: the Leading Intestinal Failure Equality initiative
Moderators: Stéphane Schneider, Simon Lal, Marek Lichota
- Raising the bar for Malnutrition Awareness Weeks
Moderators: Konstantina Togka & SilviaTarantino - ICD-11 in practice: a pan-European implementation plan
Moderators: Tommy Cederholm - Patient Advocacy: The Engine of Your Policy Campaign: Nutrition & Cancer
- Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan
- RELEVIUM policy paper – Pancreatic Cancer
- Moderators: ENHA Patient & Nutrition Impact Group
Conference reports
COMING SOON Paris conference report
The 2026 Paris Conference Report and photos will be published here, delegates will be notified.
COMING SOON
2025 Athens Conference Report
Read the 2025 Athens Conference Report here, and explore event highlights including photos and PowerPoint presentations.
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