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Good hospital food.

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If this man can serve up 1st. class food for his hospital then why cannot his methods be rolled out everywhere? He deserves a medal for showing what can be done.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/83989 ... -care.html

I know our local hospital has food transported from from Wales,( I live on the S. coast) and it arrives frozen and tastes dreadful. One meal that I received was still partially frozen and inedible.
 
This guy was featured on one of Heston Blumenthal tv programmes recently where he was trying to change the food served in the NHS, just goes to show what can be done on a tight budget.

Nigel
 
The problem is - the hospitals always blame the budget (for the food) for the food being poor. A good chef/cook can make good food on a shoestring.

The problem there is, they'll blame the budget for the chef's salary not being high enough. You can't get a good chef if you pay peanuts!

So many of the people serving the food in hospitals are foreign. They seem happy to accdpt the pitence that is paid. I wonder if the same is true of th epeople MAKING the food?
 
copepod said:
You can only cook in a suitably equipped kitchen - many are only equipped to reheat previously cooked, frozen & defrosted food and put items on trays.
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That is the state of the "kitchens" now. There was a time when all patient and staff meals were cooked on the premises. Then the catering was put out to tender and the quality dropped and the large kitchens were dismantled and equipment sold off. Catering staff lost their jobs and staff had nowhere to buy food as they are not catered for anymore in some places. Where I work, no facilities on the ward, no tea bags/ coffee or milk, not even a kettle. It is soul destroying to have a patient admitted in the early hours of the morning and not be able to give them a hot drink. If I am on nights I take these items in with me , including a kettle,because there will not be a drink for any patient until breakfast.
 
The comments above make one erealise that nothing much changes.

About 27 years ago I spent a few months in a maternity hospital in Liverpool/

The food was pretty dreadful as was almost everything else. Any complaints were met with "Blame Maggie thatcher"! We were all perfectly happy to do so but i even her greaest critic could not blame her for one hing. In the antenatal ward we very ofen didn't get lunch at all. It lef he kichens and never reached the ward. I somehow could not envisage the Iron Lady hi-jacking the trolleys!
Although we were all sarving we did not want to make hings difficult for the already overstretched saff so we had o wai until the fathers to be brought rations in at visiting time.
 
I have no complaint about the food, after all I wasn't in hospital on a holiday, but I heard the staff organise themselves to a cafe to bring back bacon butties & they agreed to get me one if I had the money!
 
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