Healthcare

The partnership between the contract caterer and the charity began two years ago. Recently it became the first firm to provide food supplies to FareShare's Cardiff depot, which opened in July.

"The report contains some shocking accounts of care received by patients in hospitals across the country, focusing on four key fundamentals of care-communication, access to pain relief, assistance wit

The first phase of the campaign will involve calling on all dieitians in the UK to highlight what the BDA calls "the national disgrace that, conservatively estimated, involves around 1,000,000 older p

The campaign, which is part of the charity Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, is interested to hear from institutions of any size right across the public sector, whether baking bread f

The key themes observed in hospitals that were failing to meet the essential standard relating to nutrition were: * People not given the help they needed to eat, meaning they struggled to eat or were

Figures also suggest that across 200 NHS Hospital and Mental Health Trusts, almost 8% of all hospital meals go uneaten - wasting more than £26 million. Seven hospital Trusts reported a worrying 20% o

Medirest provides patient, staff and visitor catering, retail, industry-leading cleaning and a number of other support services including portering, laundry and helpdesk to more than 30 NHS Trusts. Th

The charity's chairman, Rob Rees, said: "There are simple things which can make a huge difference here.

The Cookery School's team will run this one-off session for a limited number of cooks from 3-6pm at their purpose-built training kitchen.

"And these trends go further than just being an issue of the moment", she says, "they underpin how manufacturers and hospitals look at the entire catering function and what can be done to address thes