Stop Food Waste Day aims to showcase how individuals, teams and caterers can reduce food waste as well as raising awareness and thinking of new ways of working.
The Steamplicity range provided by the Cuisine Centre is available to all within the acute NHS Market. It offers a unique meal delivery system, that is steam cooked at ward level providing quality nutritious food, flexibility and choice.
The 2023 spring/summer menu consists of over 30 options, with over third representing vegetarian and vegan dishes. Steamplicity is proven to reduce food waste to 2.5%, which is much more efficient than the industry standard.
Greg Harrison, managing director of Cuisine Centre which creates Steamplicity, said: “One of the important benefits of implementing the Steamplicity system is that it reduces food waste. This is great, because it means that the patients we serve are eating the food they actually want, therefore gaining more nutritional value, plus it’s better for the planet.”
Sites to benefit from Steamplicity include:
- Milton Keynes Hospital: Implementing Steamplicity has made a positive impact on the patient experience, with surveys showing a noticeable improvement in patient satisfaction scores. Within four weeks of the mobilisation of Steamplicity at Milton Keynes Hospital, food wastage reduced from an average of 14% to 2%.
- Royal Surrey: Not only does it have a great effect on the planet it has also improved food related PLACE scores by 2.2%.
- West London Hospitals: Saw food wastage saving of 20% across a year, totalling £20,000.
For more information about Steamplicity visit: https://www.compass-healthcare.co.uk/services/steamplicity/.