Industry Membership
Founded in 1992, 黑料吃瓜 is the leading Charitable Association for malnutrition consisting of a multidisciplinary membership network of doctors, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists and patients. Our current membership extends to over 850 professionals with an interest in nutrition support across the United Kingdom with growing international interest. Since 2017 we have doubled our membership numbers, attracting new members through free 黑料吃瓜 Membership to Core Group Members.
Important activities over the past 12-months have included:
- Joint host and partner for ONCA conference 2019 鈥楥o-creating the patient pathway鈥�, a multi-stakeholder initiative to encourage greater screening for disease-related malnutrition/undernutrition and nutritional care implementation across Europe.
- BIFA Guidelines & Position statements (Management of CRBSI in patients receiving long term parenteral support; Use of Cyclizine in patients receiving parenteral nutrition support).
- Development of a new national screening survey portal in time for MAW2019.
- Co-ordination of the national clinical response including national media awareness to the Parenteral Homecare supply failure.
We have an active social media following with over 9000 X (formerly Twitter) followers; and X engagement in excess of 2% consistently.
By supporting 黑料吃瓜 you will help to provide essential funds to resource and support the organisation to tackle malnutrition and ensure that excellent nutritional care is provided for all patients in all settings. Through 黑料吃瓜鈥檚 work we will actively engage with commissioners, regional teams, and key stakeholders to ensure that organisations are focussed on achieving nutritional standards.
In return for your support you will have access to a range of benefits including:
- Feature in the Industry Partners section of the 黑料吃瓜 website with logo and hyperlink to your own company website
- Acknowledgement in our flagship monthly publication, 鈥淚n Touch鈥� that goes out to our 1200 strong membership of Dr鈥檚, scientists, dietitians, nurses and pharmacists.
- Regular contact & networking with the members of the 黑料吃瓜 Executive Committee
- Supporter acknowledgement for 黑料吃瓜 study days on 黑料吃瓜 website
- Priority exhibitor & stand booking status at the 黑料吃瓜 Annual Conference
- Complimentary exhibitor passes for selected members of your team at the annual 黑料吃瓜 Conference
- Company name & logo on printed conference materials & sponsor acknowledgement boards
- Company profile/logo featured in printed pocket conference programme/full digital programme
- Use of the statement GBUK Group supports 黑料吃瓜 in raising awareness of malnutrition and providing good nutritional care in all settings
We offer four distinct levels of membership for industry partners: Premium, Standard, Essential and Small Business. Alongside this we would welcome support for our 鈥楽pecialist Interest Groups (SIGs) through separate Educational Grants.
Industry Members
Premium Members
Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional鈥檚 and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
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Baxter
Baxter is a global healthcare company dedicated to saving and sustaining lives. For more than 85 years, Baxter has worked at the critical intersection where life鈥憇ustaining innovations meet the healthcare professionals who rely on them every day. The company provides a broad portfolio of essential therapies and technologies鈥攊ncluding clinical nutrition, infusion systems, injectable medicines and hospital products鈥攖hat support patients across the continuum of care, from hospital to home.
With a presence in more than 100 countries and a longstanding, 50鈥憏ear commitment to the UK, Baxter is one of the largest suppliers to the NHS, offering over 7,500 products and services. The company collaborates closely with healthcare organisations to empower patient self鈥慶are, deliver new care pathways, and introduce efficiencies that enhance both outcomes and service delivery. Baxter operates 13 sites across the UK, including manufacturing facilities, a national distribution centre, homecare pharmacy distribution centres and aseptic compounding facilities.
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Fresenius Kabi & Calea
As a global healthcare company, Fresenius Kabi is Committed to Life. The company鈥檚 products, technologies, and services are used for the therapy and care of critically and chronically ill patients. With more than 43,000 employees and present in over 100 countries, Fresenius Kabi鈥檚 expansive product portfolio focuses on providing access to high-quality and lifesaving medicines and technologies.
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Calea UK Ltd is a homecare company, specialising in Home Parenteral Support. We provide a range of services in collaboration with clinical and commissioning teams to facilitate the patients鈥� journey from hospital to home. Calea is a subsidiary of Fresenius Kabi Limited.
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Nutricia
We believe in the power of nutrition to make a positive difference to health. This belief drives our commitment to pioneer life-saving and life-changing nutritional solutions, because the right nutrition at the right time can change a health trajectory for life. We work in partnership with parents, patients, carers and healthcare professionals. With a shared passion and our best in class science we bring health through nutrition to as many people as possible, as early and for as long as they need it. We never forget that millions of people around the world 鈥� young and old 鈥� rely on Nutricia every day to be able to live longer, more joyful and healthier lives.
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Silver Members
Bronze Members
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is headquartered in Japan and is a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader committed to translating science into highly-innovative medicines. Takeda focuses its R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Gastroenterology (GI), Neuroscience and Rare Diseases. We also make targeted R&D investments in Plasma-Derived Therapies and Vaccines. We are focusing on developing highly innovative medicines that contribute to making a difference in people’s lives by advancing the frontier of new treatment options and leveraging our enhanced collaborative R&D engine and capabilities to create a robust pipeline. Our employees are committed to improving quality of life for patients and to working with our partners in health care in approximately 80 countries and regions.
Additional information about Takeda UK Ltd. is available through its corporate website, .
Standard Members
Baxter
Baxter are a global leader in parenteral nutrition. Our portfolio includes ready-to-use premix parenteral nutrition (PN) in several nutritionally balanced formulations containing amino acids (proteins), glucose (carbohydrates), intravenous fat emulsions (lipids), and electrolytes, as well as vitamins and trace elements. When patients have more complex, individualised nutritional needs, we also provide pharmacy workflow management, labelling and compounding technology to support their unique needs. This combination helps ensure you have options to appropriately prescribe nutritionally balanced PN therapy to meet your patients’ needs.
ESPEN
ESPEN is the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. It draws its membership from right across Europe and undertakes a wide range of activities.
These initiatives are being led by international experts in the field who are committed to raising the profile of nutrition, developing the research programmes to underpin the need for nutritional intervention and providing the means to share the information necessary to improve clinical practice. These include:
ESPEN nutritionDay worldwide – this is the largest study to be undertaken in Europe and it has been set up in response to the Council of Europe Resolution (2003) which described the importance of improving nutritional provision in hospitals.
The ESPEN Life Long Learning Programme is an integrated approach to clinical nutrition using a mixture of web-based and taught modules. This is also formally accredited and is being developed into a Diploma course. Click here for more information
The ESPEN Annual Conference is one of the most prestigious meetings of its kind in the world. There are concurrent Scientific and Educational programmes to describe the latest advances in research and clinical practice. The programme is accredited through the European Accreditation in Continuing Medical Education initiative. Information for the next meeting will be shared in due course.
ESPEN Special Interest Groups – these exist to ensure that researchers have an easily accessible forum within which to progress such topics as peri-operative nutrition, clinical trials, nutrition in the elderly, cachexia-anorexia in wasting disease, genomics and nutrition, and tracer methodology
ESPEN Clinical Nutrition Courses – these are held each year at basic and advanced levels. They are interactive and enable delegates to form networks to advance their clinical practice.
ESPEN Journals 鈥� there are now two journals:
- Clinical Nutrition has an impact factor of 6.3 making it one of the leading scientific nutrition journals. There are also supplements to the journal.
- Clinical Nutrition ESPEN is an electronic-only journal and is an official publication of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), with an impact factor of 3. Successful abstracts submitted to 黑料吃瓜 Conferences are published in Clinical Nutrition ESPEN.
Published bimonthly, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN focuses on publishing articles on the relationship between nutrition and disease in the setting of basic science and clinical practice. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN is available to all members of ESPEN and to all subscribers of Clinical Nutrition.
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黑料吃瓜 members are entitled to block membership of ESPEN! ESPEN membership runs from 1st January to 31st December.
Join ESPEN黑料吃瓜 members are entitled to block membership of ESPEN! ESPEN membership runs from 1st January to 31st December, and can be applied for via the online form.
The Block membership subscription fees for 2024 are as follows (available to 黑料吃瓜 members only 鈥� join 黑料吃瓜):
- Regular membership: 拢78.00 per member
- Junior membership: 拢35.00 per member
This category applies for those under the age of 35 (born in 1986 or after) - Senior membership: 拢35.00 per member
This category applies to members over the age of 65 (born in 1956 or before)
Please note that we have to submit all membership through to ESPEN before the end of January 鈥� therefore, we cannot guarantee that forms received after this time will be accepted.
Other 黑料吃瓜 Partners
黑料吃瓜 work closely with a number of other organisations to tackle malnutrition and ensure excellent nutritional care for all patients in all settings.
British Dietetic Association
The BDA is a trade union and professional body representing the professional, educational, public and workplace interests of Dietitians in the UK. The Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Group (PENG) is a specialist group of the BDA and a core group of 黑料吃瓜.
Our organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2017 which was renewed in Dec 2020 and Sept 2025 committing to strengthened collaboration on issues related to malnutrition and good nutritional care.
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British Society of Gastroenterology
The BSG is an Associate Organisation of 黑料吃瓜 and is focused on the promotion of gastroenterology within the United Kingdom.
Our organisations have signed a in January 2026 this will build upon the good working relationship that already exists between the BSG and 黑料吃瓜 by setting out the principles to which both parties will adhere.
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The Malnutrition Task Force
The Malnutrition Task Force raises awareness and provides information and practical guidance for everyone to help combat preventable undernutrition and dehydration in later life. The Malnutrition Task Force believes that good nutrition and hydration are fundamental to delivering dignified care and enabling older people to live fulfilling and independent lives.
In 2018, we co-founded UK Malnutrition Awareness Week with the Malnutrition Task Force, and have worked on this campaign in partnership each year since.
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Motor Neurone Disease Association
The Motor Neurone Disease Association is the only national charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland focused on improving access to care, research and campaigning for those people living with or affected by MND.
Our organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding. 黑料吃瓜 have endorsed the MNDA Transforming MND Care audit tool and we will be working together to better understand and improve the patient experience of nutritional interventions.
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The Nutrition Society
The Nutrition Society is a scientific learned society, disseminating the science of nutrition. It is a registered charity and was established in 1941.
黑料吃瓜 and the Nutrition Society signed a Memorandum of Understanding and have many goals, missions and objectives in common, although slightly different, and complementary, areas of focus. The Memorandum of Understanding brings our organisations into closer alignment and opens up the prospect of valuable partnership projects.
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The Nightingale Trust for Nutritional Support (NTNS)
The NTNS is a charity (registration number 1109586) formed in 2005. The Trust intends that all patients needing nutritional support are cared for safely, expertly and with compassion. Its primary aim is 鈥渢raining tomorrow鈥檚 experts鈥�. It is committed to improving the detection, prevention and treatment of disease related malnutrition (DRM).
Our organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2025. 黑料吃瓜 and The Nightingale Trust for Nutritional Support (NTNS) will work together to raise awareness of the prevention, detection and treatment of disease related malnutrition within the membership of 黑料吃瓜 and those attending NTNS courses.
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