Useful weblinks related to the Dispatches programme The Truth About Hospital Food.
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Notes from a Hospital Bed (opens in a new window)
Reporter Mark Sparrow's blog. Mark spent 10 weeks in traction eating NHS food.
Comment Is Free: medic's feature (opens in a new window)
'I mend hearts. Then I see my patients served junk food by our hospitals' – Aseem Malhotra , cardiology specialist registrar
The British Association for Parental and Enteral Nutrition (Bapen) (opens in a new window)
Bapen's vision is 'to help ensure that those suffering from malnutrition or other nutritional problems are appropriately recognised and managed.
British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (Bant) (opens in a new window)
The professional body for nutritional therapists.
Hospital Caterers' Association (opens in a new window)
The Better Hospital Food programme was launched in May 2001.
Sustain (opens in a new window)
A charity that seeks to 'encourage businesses to produce, process and market foods which are good for health and the environment', among other practices.
The Soil Association: Hospital Food(opens in a new window)
The Soil Association, a charity which campaigns for healthier food and farming, released a report earlier this month (First Aid for Hospital Food; 7 Feb) which is full of success stories, where positive improvements in quality, local food sourcing has improved patients' food without inflating hospital budgets. A significant number of hospitals are already sourcing local, seasonal, organic food, cutting their food miles, boosting their local economies and serving healthier, fresher meals to their patients within tight budgets, and in some cases even saving money.
The Independent:
'£50 billion wasted on attempts to improve hospital food'(opens in a new window)(Dec 2009)
BBC News:
New NHS menus 'too expensive' (opens in a new window) (April 2001)
Loyd Grossman to spice up hospital food(opens in a new window) (Nov 2000)
Related charities:
Age UK (opens in a new window)
Advice on healthy eating
