Healthcare

The RSC has recreated the toast sandwich (featuring salt and pepper), first promoted by the celebrated Mrs Beeton in her cook book published 150 years ago next month.

The award citation said the two firms showed how an innovative and open approach to working together had made a significant difference to reducing carbon emissions, improving efficiency and cutting co

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.