Food Review - Next Steps

Hospital food and drink is an integral component of delivery of care to patients and to the health and wellbeing of NHS staff. From establishing our community of exemplar sites that provide leadership within their regions to developing the National Standards of Hospital Food. Three years on from the Food Review, there has been great progress in improving the provision of hospital food.

We now need to build on this solid foundation. Our culinary teams have an important role to play in the next stages of this work: nurturing pro-active partnerships with dietitians and nursing teams to develop tasty and nutritious menus, being present at ward level and providing leadership to other teams to create a cohesive “front of house” when it comes to food services.