Introduction of a community nutrition risk assessment tool.

This article describes the introduction of a community nutrition risk assessment (CNRA) initiative in liaison with a local primary care trust (PCT). A pilot was undertaken in order to produce local evidence of the benefits of nutrition risk screening and thus gain support from the PCT for full implementation of the CNRA. The results from the pilot, which indicated that a substantial financial saving for the PCT was possible with a corresponding improvement in patient care, were sufficiently convincing for the PCT to sanction the introduction of the CNRA throughout the local community.