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A second, updated report analysing government spending that has been wasted on voluntary attempts to improve hospital food.
This second hospital food publication by the Good Food for Our Money campaign includes a foreword by Professor Tim Lang.
Report contents
Foreword
New evidence in 2010 of wasteful spending
January 2010: Chef Loyd Grossman “disappointed and frustrated” by NHS Better Hospital Food Initiative
February 2010: Government pays £788,000 to pilot yet another voluntary food scheme
February 2010: Government fails to promise better hospital food to tackle malnutrition
Campaigners say: Enough is enough!
March 2010: Campaigners call for legally binding hospital food standards
Acknowledgements
A Decade of Hospital Food Failure – research from the first report
1. Tasty morsels of background information
During 1992: Health of the Nation white paper is published
During 1992: King’s Fund finds poor nutrition amongst hospital patients
During 1995: Government launches Nutrition Guidelines for Hospital Catering
During 1997: Hospital patients fail to achieve good nutrition
During 2000: Council of Europe reviews hospital food
2. The decade of failures (2000 to 2010)
2000
During 2000: NHS Plan sets out care plan (costing £10m), including food targets
2001
May 2001: NHS launches Better Hospital Food initiative (costing £40m)
During 2001: NHS launches ‘Essence of Care’ guidance
2003
During 2003: Defra launches Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative (costing at least £2.5m)
November 2003: Advisory group shows malnutrition in hospital patients persists
December 2003: Council of Europe issues resolution on hospital food
2004
During 2004: NHS identifies hospital food as a priority for health and sustainability
2005
May 2005: Government sets up the Sustainable Procurement Task Force
During 2005: Chief Medical Officer calls for healthy and sustainable food in the public sector
During 2005: 65,000 people in care homes at risk of malnutrition
2006
During 2006: MP calls for food standards for nursing homes
March 2006: Audit Office says the UK can afford sustainable public sector food
May 2006: Better Hospital Food initiative is scrapped
June 2006: Sustainable Procurement Task Force says “it’s not difficult” to achieve sustainable procurement
During 2006: Healthcare Commission says hospital patients need help to eat meals
September 2006: Age Concern shows malnutrition in hospital patients persists
2007
During 2007: Royal College of Nursing launches Nutrition Now! campaign
May 2007: Public Accounts Committee recommends high animal welfare, fair trade and healthy eating standards in the public sector
October 2007: The Department of Health launches a Nutrition Action Plan
2008
August 2008: The Department of Health launches online nutrition training
July 2008: Cabinet Office Food Matters report promises action
July 2008: BBC reveals hospitals waste £1m worth of food every year
During 2008: Which? investigates the unhealthy state of hospital food
October 2008: Nutrition Action Plan delivery board reports on ‘awareness raising’
2009
January 2009: Sustainable Development Commission urges government to show leadership
January 2009: Hilary Benn sets up Council of Food Policy Advisors
April 2009: Public health minister commissions sustainable food guidelines for hospitals
April 2009: Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative falters
April 2009: Royal College of Nursing Nutrition Now! campaign is scrapped
April 2009: Office of Government Commerce launches collaborative procurement project
February 2009: Government drafts Healthier Food Mark guidelines
April 2009: Malnutrition in hospitals and care homes continues to rise
May 2009: Healthcare professionals condemn NHS nutrition initiatives
May 2009: Largest catering company in the world supports legally binding standards
June 2009: Celebrity chef Simon Rimmer asked to revamp Liverpool’s hospital food
June 2009: Heston Blumenthal hired to sort out hospital food
August 2009: Government issues tender for voluntary Healthier Food Mark pilots
August 2009: Expert nutrition reviewers cite lack of leadership for malnutrition deaths in hospitals
August 2009: University researchers say hospital food is worse than prison food
September 2009: Council of Food Policy Advisors recommends legally binding standards
October 2009: Defra ignores recommendation to adopt legally binding standards
December 2009: Decade of hospital food failures draws to a close, but more is to come…
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