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A leading campaigner is calling for the NHS in England to introduce legally binding standards for hospital food.
Writing on the British Medical Journal's website, Katherine Jenner, chair of the Campaign for Better Hospital Food, says the existing voluntary system is not working.
The government is carrying out a review of hospital food.
But it is not supporting a private member's bill currently in the Lords which calls for mandatory standards.
The bill, introduced by Lady Cumberlege, requires the health secretary to ask a body of experts to draft mandatory food standards for hospitals. The Care Quality Commission would then be asked to check these standards were being met.
It is being backed by 98 organisations supporting the Campaign for Better Hospital Food.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25448572
Writing on the British Medical Journal's website, Katherine Jenner, chair of the Campaign for Better Hospital Food, says the existing voluntary system is not working.
The government is carrying out a review of hospital food.
But it is not supporting a private member's bill currently in the Lords which calls for mandatory standards.
The bill, introduced by Lady Cumberlege, requires the health secretary to ask a body of experts to draft mandatory food standards for hospitals. The Care Quality Commission would then be asked to check these standards were being met.
It is being backed by 98 organisations supporting the Campaign for Better Hospital Food.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25448572