Frail patients going hungry as NINE MILLION meals are binned
There are concerns that too often meal trays are simply dumped in front of bedbound patients and removed before anyone has helped them eat.
Of the 200 hospitals and mental health trusts which provided figures, seven admitted to throwing away more than a fifth of meals.
This waste is estimated to cost the NHS £22million a year.
... Health minister Simon Burns said: ‘Hospitals with high levels of waste should be looking to learn from the ones that don’t.
‘All hospitals should also make sure that every patient gets the help they need to eat properly, and offer good-quality nutritious food.
This is an essential part of hospital care.’
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To create a law that is a basic level of service enshrining a Patient’s Bill of Rights in hospitals superceding all other guidelines and laws about patient care. A patient (and their family for them) will have the right to demand by this Act the following:
1. Full equality of care, medication, surgery, treatments and screening irrespective of age, disability and illness.
2. Right to demand life preserving medication and CPR.
3. Right of access to all GP prescribed medication on the GP’s budget.
4. Patients / Patients’ family in charge of Carers.
5. For patient to decide use / removal of oxygen mask.
6. Access to water all the time by patient by mains run water cooler or mechanical tube.
7. Sufficient food.
8. Clean bed linen immediately when soiled.
9. Right beds to prevent bed sores.
10. Swift access to commodes and slop bucket replaced immediately.
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Shopping locally would
improve food on the wards,
say campaigners for the sick and undernourished
SUNDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2011
The report, First Aid for Hospital Food, ...warns the NHS is wasting millions of pounds by failing to source fresh produce from local suppliers.
...hospitals are finding that, in addition to the health benefits, investing in good food saves them millions annually as well as stimulating the local economy. Nottingham City Hospital, for example, saved £6m last year by buying produce locally instead of sourcing its food from expensive multinationals....
Figures released in December by the NHS Information Centre show a record 13,500 patients became malnourished during their hospital stay last year, while a report from within the Department of Health suggests almost 50,000 people could be suffering from malnutrition or conditions complicated by malnutrition in English hospitals.
Since April 2010, it has been a requirement of a hospital's continuing registration with the
Care Quality Commission, that patients are protected from the risks of dehydration and inadequate nutrition.
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Express and Star
Thursday 13th October 2011,
Examples ...
"leaving patients without intravenous fluids and one incontinent patient left unwashed despite asking for help." ..."call bells being put out of the reach of patients or not responded to quickly enough, staff speaking to people in a “condescending or dismissive way” and curtains not being closed around beds when personal care such as washing was done." ...
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16th September 2011
Daily Mail
Of the 137 hospitals visited by inspectors at the CQC in the last year, 49 per cent were found to be failing basic standards of care and wellbeing.
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