News: Campaign for Better Hospital Food nominated for BBC award
Campaign for Better Hospital Food is nominated for a BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Award in the Best Initiative in British Food category.
Better Hospital Food | Monday 16 March 2015
News: Call for 45p cheques to save Oxfordshire hospital kitchens
The Campaign for Better Hospital Food is collecting 45p cheques from members of the public in a bid to protect the closure of kitchens at hospitals in Wantage, Didcot, Wallingford, Chipping Norton and Witney.
Better Hospital Food | Thursday 18 June 2015
News: Call to monitor hospital food
Campaigners have said that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's plans to provide mandatory food standards in England's hospitals are 'woefully inadequate'.
Better Hospital Food | Friday 29 August 2014
News: Campaigners demand mandatory standards for hospital food
Campaigners have accused successive UK governments of 'wasting' more than £54m (€62m; $82m) on 'failed' voluntary schemes to improve hospital food over the past 21 years when what are needed are mandatory nutritional standards.
Better Hospital Food | Saturday 2 March 2013
News: Hospital food 'sourced from animals reared in poor conditions'
Meat and eggs used in hospital food in England do not meet the animal welfare standards expected by consumers, a survey suggests.
Better Hospital Food | Thursday 15 November 2012
Reports: Keep Hospitals Cooking: Reflections from a hospital kitchen
In August 2013 UNISON and the Campaign for Better Hospital Food sent a survey to every hospital caterer in England to identify how they cooked hospital food, what factors they felt influenced their ability to cook high quality patient meals, about their working conditions and what changes to hospital catering they want to see.
Better Hospital Food | Tuesday 10 December 2013
News: Hospital Food Schemes 'Wasted £54m'
Mandatory food standards should be introduced in hospitals amid reports voluntary schemes to improve quality have failed, wasting £54m.
Better Hospital Food | Friday 22 February 2013
News: Ditch the junk from hospital canteens and vending machines
The Campaign for Better Hospital Food today welcomed the announcement by NHS chief executive Simon Stevens that hospitals should ditch junk food from vending machines, staff canteens and retail outlets.
Better Hospital Food | Wednesday 2 September 2015
News: Plea over hospital food standards
Campaigners have renewed calls for ministers to introduce minimum standards for the quality of food served to patients after it emerged that a third of hospitals which claim they are fulfilling voluntary requirements are not actually meeting the criteria.
Better Hospital Food | Tuesday 31 December 2013
News: Hospital staff say patient meals not fit to eat
More than half of hospital staff in England wouldn’t eat food served to patients because it’s unhealthy and of poor quality, according to a survey by UNISON
Better Hospital Food | Thursday 11 April 2019
