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Whittington hospital catering
I went to the Whittington A&E today for an X-ray (long story) and while waiting for the results was offered a free cup of tea and a sandwich by a woman going round with a trolley. In all my years of waiting around in that department on many different occasions, once for an entire day, I have never had more than crisps and chocolate from the vending machine.
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Permalink Reply by Emma on
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I have heard that Public Health are doing some work around improving hospital food. Esp around catering and what is available to patients . Looks like it is being used by at least you anyway.
Emma
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I guess the only other question I have is- was the sandwiches edible?? :-)
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on
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I had fairly poor food when I was in there after the birth of our baby.
For each meal I was asked to pre order, but there was always something wrong when it arrived.
One time my apple juice was substituted with tomato soup. I thought, that's ok, tomato soup is nice. Not this one, it was grey
And another meal I was offered cottage pie with a side of extra mash. Don;t get me wrong, I like mash, but not double mash.
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Permalink Reply by Madeline on
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So far this year I have been taken into A&E five times and my husband once. On my husbands' visit he was transferred to ISIS ward (unfortunate name. It's the ward just off A&E that they use for ops and possibly pre-admission). I was there with him when lunch was served. After he'd had his lunch the girl came and took me to the small, on ward kitchen, and offered me some dinner too. Lovely it was.
Then there was one of my visits which resulted in a wait of four hours to be seen. I was already in the A&E ward and at 9am I was offered a breakfast of cereal or bread and jam plus a cuppa. Nice.
But the worst ones for food are the Mary Seacole wards. (Also ops wards) Even worse than airline food. It's pre-made, bland and unappetising, comes on a plastic dish that's sitting on a normal dish, then covered with a see-through cover. Obviously microwaved with condensation drops on the lid which gives a pock marked look to the food underneath and you only get one spoon for use with soup and desert. It's a totally different menu from the other wards which have freshy cooked meals available. (Try the mackerel salad, Thursdays meal, but take some extra salad cream with you.
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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I was in an a&E cubicle 3y ago with a broken collar bone, when lady came round with sandwiches and tea. Lovely and big surprise and yummy. Told me it was lunchtime- felt very lucky
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I was an inpatient (from A&E) all five times I was there. Three of them for 10-11 days a time. I've already described the food in the temporary ward, (yuk) but in Nightingale ward where I ended up for two of my visits, the food was quite nice. Not cooked on the ward, but delivered freshly cooked from a kitchen somewhere, delivered to the ward in heated trolleys, dished up immediately at meal time and not kept standing in a corridor somewhere. In the circumstances I'd say it was as fresh as it could be, and you could taste that.
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