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Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN)

Co-chairs: Peter Talbot and Janet Bell

What is HEN?

Home enteral nutrition (HEN) is the giving of nutritional support either by mouth or by a feeding tube into the gastrointestinal tract in the home setting. There are ~10,000 people in NSW receiving HEN (3000 tube fed, 7000 on oral nutrition supplements). The use of HEN is growing at 20% each year. People requiring nutritional support at home face a number of difficulties accessing clinical services, formula and equipment.

HEN Network

The HEN Network includes over 250 clinicians (doctors, nurses, dietitians, speech pathologists and other allied health professionals) working in over 100 healthcare facilities across NSW.

The aim of HEN Network is to improve the access and equity to HEN services for all patients across NSW - nourishing lives at home.

Would you like to find out more about GMCT HEN network?

Who is the HEN Network responsible to?

HEN is a specialty network of the Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce (GMCT). GMCT is an advisory body to the Director General of Health and the NSW Minister for Health. The HEN Network collaborates with the NSW Institute of Rural Clinical Services and Teaching of issues relating to HEN in rural NSW.

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