30,000 bed days and €24 million can be saved across Irish public hospitals per year, while the length of patient stays will be shortened – and the recovery of hospitalised Covid-19 patients can be improved.

That's all if every hospital in the country implements a new national standard for inpatient nutrition.

Shane Beatty was joined on Breakfast Briefing by Carmel O Hanlon, clinical specialist dietician, at Beaumont hospital, who is with the Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism: