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May 21, 2012, 9:30:35 AM5/21/12
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'Big Mac Healthier Than NHS Hospital Food' Says Study
Some hospital patients would be better off having a MacDonald's burger
than eating food currently served on wards, a Study has shown.
Food charity Sustain's research showed that 75% of hospital food
contained more saturated fat than a Big Mac, while 60% of hospital
dinners also had dangerously high levels of salt.
The poor nutritional quality of food served up by the NHS Supply Chain
compounds the government's embarrassment over hospital meals.
It shows little has changed since an official survey published in
December revealed that one in 10 of 60,000 NHS patients rated hospital
food as 'poor'.
The Sun's campaign for better hospital food, backed by Sustain and
other health charities, urges the government to set minimum standards
for hospital food, labelling the current meals 'NHS big muck.'
Millions of hospital meals are returned uneaten each year, costing the
NHS more than £22 million, official figures last October revealed.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that
the government was working to improve the quality of food in
hospitals, saying that the number of patients leaving hospitals
malnourished was significantly worse under the Labour government.
Some hospital patients would be better off having a MacDonald's burger
than eating food currently served on wards, a Study has shown.
Food charity Sustain's research showed that 75% of hospital food
contained more saturated fat than a Big Mac, while 60% of hospital
dinners also had dangerously high levels of salt.
The poor nutritional quality of food served up by the NHS Supply Chain
compounds the government's embarrassment over hospital meals.
It shows little has changed since an official survey published in
December revealed that one in 10 of 60,000 NHS patients rated hospital
food as 'poor'.
The Sun's campaign for better hospital food, backed by Sustain and
other health charities, urges the government to set minimum standards
for hospital food, labelling the current meals 'NHS big muck.'
Millions of hospital meals are returned uneaten each year, costing the
NHS more than £22 million, official figures last October revealed.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that
the government was working to improve the quality of food in
hospitals, saying that the number of patients leaving hospitals
malnourished was significantly worse under the Labour government.
He accepted that poor quality food in hospitals "shouldn't happen" but
said that dietary requirements were often "very personal" and so food
needed to be "personalised."
He told the Andrew Marr Show that both the Department of Health and
"on a range of projects to demonstrate precisely how the buying
standards in hospitals can be used in order to deliver better
nutrition for patients"
SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/20/hospital-food-nutrition-fat-macdonalds-andrew-lansley_n_1530757.html
Some hospital patients would be better off having a MacDonald's burger
than eating food currently served on wards, a Study has shown.
Food charity Sustain's research showed that 75% of hospital food
contained more saturated fat than a Big Mac, while 60% of hospital
dinners also had dangerously high levels of salt.
The poor nutritional quality of food served up by the NHS Supply Chain
compounds the government's embarrassment over hospital meals.
It shows little has changed since an official survey published in
December revealed that one in 10 of 60,000 NHS patients rated hospital
food as 'poor'.
The Sun's campaign for better hospital food, backed by Sustain and
other health charities, urges the government to set minimum standards
for hospital food, labelling the current meals 'NHS big muck.'
Millions of hospital meals are returned uneaten each year, costing the
NHS more than £22 million, official figures last October revealed.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that
the government was working to improve the quality of food in
hospitals, saying that the number of patients leaving hospitals
malnourished was significantly worse under the Labour government.
Some hospital patients would be better off having a MacDonald's burger
than eating food currently served on wards, a Study has shown.
Food charity Sustain's research showed that 75% of hospital food
contained more saturated fat than a Big Mac, while 60% of hospital
dinners also had dangerously high levels of salt.
The poor nutritional quality of food served up by the NHS Supply Chain
compounds the government's embarrassment over hospital meals.
It shows little has changed since an official survey published in
December revealed that one in 10 of 60,000 NHS patients rated hospital
food as 'poor'.
The Sun's campaign for better hospital food, backed by Sustain and
other health charities, urges the government to set minimum standards
for hospital food, labelling the current meals 'NHS big muck.'
Millions of hospital meals are returned uneaten each year, costing the
NHS more than £22 million, official figures last October revealed.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that
the government was working to improve the quality of food in
hospitals, saying that the number of patients leaving hospitals
malnourished was significantly worse under the Labour government.
He accepted that poor quality food in hospitals "shouldn't happen" but
said that dietary requirements were often "very personal" and so food
needed to be "personalised."
He told the Andrew Marr Show that both the Department of Health and
"on a range of projects to demonstrate precisely how the buying
standards in hospitals can be used in order to deliver better
nutrition for patients"
SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/20/hospital-food-nutrition-fat-macdonalds-andrew-lansley_n_1530757.html
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