But sending Bolton to the United Nations without the backing of the Senate would make him a temporary fill-in ambassador, raise questions about his authority and possibly diminish his standing.
The work to fill in the missing links and raise the accuracy of the data to the final "gold standard" of 99.99% is expected to take at least another two years.
The RCN has launched its Nutrition Now campaign to raise awareness of the problem by calling on nurses to fill in incident forms when they are unable to help feed patients.