This report looks at the benefits of introducing a washing machine into a hospital kitchen. Pots and pans were cleaner with a lower bacteria count, so the benefits derived were considered well worth the expense involved.
Because of the ever increasing difficulty of obtaining and retaining skilled catering staff, particularly in the larger cities and comparatively remote country districts, this report looks at the ways in which better use of the few skilled staff available could be achieved by the introduction of automation and mechanisation of ...
This document considers various administrative aspects of catering for the staff working in a hospital, and in particular the following issues: decentralised or centralised dining areas; standards of the menus; payment for meals; and the planning of a restaurant.
This paper was prepared in November 1962 for the Management Committee of the Mid Herts Hospital Group to give guidance on the operational policy for the new Queen Elizabeth II Hospital. Although much of the detail in the policy will only apply to this particular hospital, the general principles would ...
This booklet is for wardens and matrons who are catering for elderly people in residential accommodation and who seek guidance about changes in diet which may be necessary. the first few paragraphs are concerned with general principles of feeding elderly people and the remainder of the booklet gives more detailed ...
This booklet is for wardens and matrons who are catering for elderly people in residential accommodation and who seek guidance about changes in diets which may be necessary. The first few paragraphs are concerned with general principles of feeding elderly people, and the remainder of the booklet gives more detailed ...
This circular looks at the problem of food waste in hospital catering. Guidelines are given as to how catering standards may be improved just by tackling the problem of waste.
One recommendation from a report on hospital catering was that catering in hospitals should be treated as the function of a separate department, under the charge of a qualified and experienced caterer, with competent staff. The Fund decided to establish the School of Hospital Catering. Initially this would provide refresher ...
The objective of this Memorandum, is to help those in charge of convalescent homes to provide the 'good food' which is one of the most important contributory factors towards recovery , but one which is often forgotten by those responsible for patients.