It is often said that food is the best form of medicine, but will the new Hospital Food Standards help? Good quality, high standard catering in hospitals and healthcare establishments is crucial. Here ISS Healthcare’s catering services director, the immediate past chair of the Hospital Caterers Association (HCA), Andy Jones, outlines just how important it is for Trusts throughout the British Isles to consistently promote, develop, and implement, catering standards, and to ensure they that are adhered to.
The standard of catering in hospitals is obviously one of the highest priorities to allow patients to recover quickly and to return home. In this respect there is a clear argument that caterers have just as important a role to play as clinicians in the patient’s recovery plan.
It has long been known that food is the best form of medicine, and when you are ill, whether it is in hospital, in social care, or even your own home, you look for food which will assist in your recovery, and help you return to fitness. Then, as the recovery progresses, you look for more nutritious foods which assist in your recuperation.
Over the past two years ‘Food is the best form of medicine’ has become the mantra of the Hospital Caterers Association (HCA), and I would argue that nobody has been banging the drum louder than me, as ISS Healthcare’s catering services development director, and the immediate past chairman of the HCA.
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