The MAG has designed an assessmentmethod, based on following a person's weight loss over a six-month period, to identify whether people are at risk of malnutrition.
He was a noted expert on the development of diagnostic questionnaires and other assessment measures, and his work was influential in determining whether an assessmentmethod was valuable or should be discarded.
Mr Broughton said his boss, John Eardley, rang him a week after Mr Farr's death to ask him to retrospectively sign a method statement, a risk assessment and a computer-aided drawing of the barrier's construction.