Twenty years of hospital food failure: Why we need mandatory standards, not more ineffective voluntary initiatives, shows that the UK government has wasted more than £50m on failed attempts to improve patient meals since 1992.
With attention now turning to patient meals in the horse meat scandal, journalist and broadcaster Loyd Grossman, and celebrity chefs Albert Roux and John Benson-Smith are joining calls led by a coalition of 89 organisations for the introduction of legally binding hospital food standards, according to the Campaign for Better Hospital Food.
The report called 20 years of hospital food failure found that between 1992 and 2013.
Loyd Grossman OBE, who led the Government’s Better Hospital Food initiative between 2001 and 2006, said: “There has not yet been a noticeable change in the way hospital food is produced, prepared, cooked and served.
“I welcome the publication of this report and hope that it prompts government to take a new and effective approach to improving hospital food, including by requiring it to meet mandatory standards.”
Source: Sustain
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