Providing over 250 daily meals to hospital visitors and staff as well as the general public and out-patients, the hospital is part of a nationwide initiative by catering providers ISS Facilities Services (FS) Healthcare to improve food at hospital retail outlets.
Tracy Rawcliffe, ISS hospital general manager, said: “Ingredients and food preparation are really important, but for us this is all part of joined-up thinking and awareness of how important food is in a hospital setting and how we make our food better for visitors, staff the public and patients. Achieving a Bronze Catering Mark is brilliant but we won’t stop there, we’re aiming for Gold!”
The Catering Mark is recognised by the Department of Health as a tool, which can support hospitals and their caterers to make improvements to the quality of food served to patients, staff and visitors.