Nutrition in hospitals
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Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (2006) PPI forums joining forces to tackle NHS food: food watch August - October 2006: national summary, Birmingham: CPPIH.
This report presents the key findings from a survey of 2,240 people in England and Wales, conducted in 97 hospitals, into what patients think about hospital food and catering services. Key findings are outlined and regional summaries are provided in the appendices.
Read PPI forums joining forces to tackle NHS food: food watch August - October 2006: national summary (PDF 265KB) on the Hospital Caterers' Association website.
Savage, J. and Scott, C. (2005) Patients' nutritional care in hospital: an ethnographic study of nurses' role and patients' experience: final report, London: RCN Institute.
This study identified the key responsibilities of the ward nursing team in providing nutritional care to patients.
British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN): Organisation of Food and Nutritional Support in Hospital
This website has been produced by a multi-professional group to help with the organisation and planning of nutritional support to adult patients in hospital. It provides information, via an interactive diagram, about multi-professional and organisational roles and how they might link in the provision of nutritional services, and includes BAPEN's vision of hospital nutritional organisation. There are links to relevant documents, reports and other organisations throughout.
Council of Europe resolution food and nutritional care in hospitals
This leaflet includes '10 key characteristics of good nutritional care in hospitals' and 'Council of Europe Resolution 12/11/2003: Food and nutritional care in hospitals'.
Read Council of Europe resolution: food and nutritional care in hospitals (PDF 194KB) on the British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) website.
Library catalogue search: Health service catering or hospital food
Go to the RCN Library catalogue for details of books and reports on this subject held in the RCN libraries. Some of these items are available online: select URL to link to them. (You may be asked to login to the RCN website to access some e-books, which are available to RCN members). RCN members may borrow in person or by post. Please contact RCN Library and Information Services (www.rcn.org.uk/library) if you would like to borrow any of these books.
Sustain (2005) Getting more sustainable food into Londons hospitals: can it be done? and is it worth it?, London: Sustain.
This report describes a two year project to increase the proportion of sustainable food in four London hospitals. Lessons learnt from the project are outlined. The full report is available as an e-publication in return for a requested donation of £10. A free summary is available online.
Read the summary on the Sustain website.