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Hospital meals shock! Patients actually like hospital food (if it
A pioneering partnership between the Soil Association and NHS trusts in Cornwall is revolutionising hospital food.
'Over boiled, soggy and nasty' meals have been transformed into patient-pleasing menus that are providing good nutrition; boosting the local economy; cutting unnecessary food miles, and supporting sustainable farming and food production.
Today's report, 'A fresh approach to hospital food' , summarises the remarkable achievements of the award winning Cornwall Food Programme which has succeeded in providing tasty hospital meals - made from fresh, local and organic ingredients - to patients without increasing costs, countering the alarming national picture of poor take-up of and inadequate nutrition from hospital meals.
The scandalous state of school dinners, as revealed by the Soil Association's Food for Life campaign and greatly boosted by Jamie Oliver's involvement, has received much media and public attention, leading to improvements. Hospital food has also been the subject of much public and political hand-wringing, but to date few significant or lasting improvements have been achieved
Source: Soil Association
Link: http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/89d058cc4dbeb16d80256a73005a2866/df544db33b9720e4802572d50033647e!OpenDocument
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