Reports: Home from hospital: Ensuring people have access to food at discharge from hospital and beyond
We need to ensure that patients can access appetising and nutritional meals and food after being discharged from hospital to assist with their recovery, reduce readmission and prevent avoidable costs. This guide summarises five key elements of ensuring people have support in place and includes a range good practice from around the country.
Food Poverty | Wednesday 16 March 2022
Reports: A decade of hospital food failure - £50m of failed initiatives to improve hospital food
The report reveals that more than £50m of taxpayers' money has been spent by government on failed voluntary attempts to improve hospital food in the last ten years. It calls for decisive action to set standards to improve the health and sustainability of hospital food, for the benefit of everyone.
Good Food for Our Money Campaign | Tuesday 1 December 2009
Reports: Yet more hospital food failure - the bill rises to £54m and still counting
A second, updated report analysing government spending from 2000 to 2010 that has been wasted on failed voluntary attempts to improve hospital food. The bill for failed government initiatives continues to rise, reaching £54m over the past decade.
Good Food for Our Money Campaign | Tuesday 30 March 2010
Reports: Good Food Training - evaluation of a pioneering training project for hospital and care caterers
This report is the final evaluation of the two-year Good Food Training project, undertaken by the Centre for Food Policy at City University. it documents the successes and challenges from the two-year project, with recommendations for catering qualifications and food skills training to improve the healthiness and sustainability of hospital and care catering in the future.
Good Food Training | Monday 21 December 2009
Reports: London Food Link hospital food project distribution research report
This research report, which was commissioned by London Food Link, and carried out by Westley Consulting Ltd, highlights some of the distribution barriers which are facing local and organic food producers when selling to the London market, and for purchasing organisations such as hospitals to buy locally made and locally distributed foods.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Wednesday 30 June 2004
Reports: Time to come clean about hospital food
Why the government must hand responsibility for monitoring hospital food to an independent body.
Better Hospital Food | Tuesday 3 February 2015
Reports: Making more of the money we spend on hospital food
Why the government must apply higher standards to hospital food
Better Hospital Food | Monday 2 February 2015
Reports: Taking the Pulse of Hospital Food: A survey of NHS hospitals, using London as a test case
This report shares the results of research into NHS hospital food standards across one geographical area, London. It is hoped that this test case can be used to understand more about hospital food nationwide. For this, the Campaign for Better Hospital Food collected data from 30 of the 39 acute hospitals in London.
Better Hospital Food | Thursday 23 March 2017
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
Reports: Twenty years of hospital food failure: Why we need mandatory standards, not more ineffective voluntary initiatives
Since 1992 Government has appointed a number of celebrities and celebrity chefs to lead failed voluntary initiatives to improve hospital food, wasting more than £54 million of taxpayers' money in the process.
Better Hospital Food | Friday 22 February 2013
