NHS trusts spend about £500 million a year on food and catering. The government is committed to the economic, environmental, social and health benefits of sustainable food procurement, but this is difficult to translate into practice at a local level. In 2004 the Better Hospital Food Programme (BHFP) commissioned the ...
This is the third edition of the Organisational Audit manual. Since 1990 several individual sections of the manual have been revised in order to ensure that the standards remain at the forefront of good practice as well as to reflect the significant changes which have taken place in the organisational ...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a comprehensive set of organisational standards covering the major aspects of an acute general hospital. This will form the basis of a professional peer review (the survey) the aim of which is to support the staff of hospitals in the provision of ...
Setting standards, measuring performance and programming remedial action are prime functions of management. They are not, however, those which are generally applied to feeding patients in hospitals. This account of a study undertaken into means of providing hospital management with such information will, it is hoped, be welcome at the ...
The management of the Royal Masonic Hospital requested the King's Fund to advise on the renewal of equipment for their kitchen. The Fund agreed to advise on: the staff establishment; buying; layout of kitchen and dining room; equipment, stating approximate life and usefulness; and systems which may show financial savings. ...
The Catering Advisory Services agreed to examine the food service arrangements at all the hospitals within the Southport area and to recommend the most suitable system for them collectively or individually. This examination was considered keeping in mind modern catering techniques and possible future developments. An examination was made of ...
At the request of the St.Helier Hospital management committee a survey of the catering service for staff was carried out. This resulted in drawings being prepared and an outline of the operational catering policy being submitted. Certain amendments to the policy were made by the Committee and they have been ...
The King's Fund Catering Advisory Service undertook to investigate the provisions costs at Hammersmith Hospital. for this purpose the Treasurer's Department submitted records of patient occupancy, ward meal requisitions, hospital and medical school staff meals, stores issue sheets and the menus for the period 9th to 22nd February 1970 inclusive. ...
A survey was undertaken to examine the cost of the catering service provided in small hospitals where catering staff costs were considered to be high. The hospitals surveyed were : Cambourne-Redruth hospital; Penrice hospital; St Austell district hospital and for each hospital the salaries and wages expenditure, and the provisions ...
A study carried out over a twelve month period investigated the use of detergents, detergent dispensers, rinse additives and injectors in hospital catering departments. However, observations on other aspects of dishwashing were noted during the study and ways in which these processes could be more efficient are included.