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New blueprint for better hospital food

Millions of NHS patients and staff will benefit from tastier, healthier and better-quality meals following an independent review of hospital food

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Enter the 2025 BBH Awards: Celebrate your impact in healthcare

The Building Better Healthcare Awards are back another year with 20 different categories for you to enter. If you have worked on a project that has significantly impacted the...
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Privacy and dignity, disability and dementia care, and catering services need improvement, survey reveals

Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment survey reveals what patients and staff really think of NHS estates and facilities standards

Investigation launched after five patients die from Listeria in four hospitals

Pre-packed sandwiches and salads believed to be at root of outbreaks

Levels of obesity continue to rise

Which regions in England are issuing the highest level of obesity-related prescriptions?

<i>Health Business Awards</i> winners are announced

NHS services including catering, transport, procurement and IT support come under the spotlight

NHS has a 'way to go' to meet patient expectations on quality of care

Privacy and dignity, hygiene, and food quality need to improve, according to 2016 <i> NHS Adult Inpatient Survey</i>

GV Health wins contract to supply over 30 UK hospitals

Compass Medirest and Bunzl draw on GV Health to deliver improved logistics and FM services to the NHS

New rules on hospital food announced

Government reveals new standards to enhance nutrition in hospitals, enforced through legally-binding NHS contracts

UK to hold world\'s first Dietitians Week

The British Dietetic Association is proud to announce the launch of the world’s first Dietitians Week

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Patient satisfaction with hospital food \'wrongly reported\'

Campaigners claim hospitals are falsely reporting figures as it is revealed one trust spends just £2.94 per patient per day

Bottled water ditched from menus by environmentally-friendly Suffolk trust

West Suffolk Hospital cuts back on waste as part of wide-reaching new sustainability plan

Prince Charles slams quality of hospital food

Prince commends 14 NHS trusts for succeeding where many are failing

Priorclave ships autoclaves to Africa

Completes order for 72 top-loading steam sterilisers for hospitals and healthcare centres in Zambia

Sanitiser inventor awarded US patent

Nobac instant foam and sanitiser is said to have greater germ-killing power

On tap – a sustainable sanitiser

The knowledge that electrolysed water could be a sanitiser has been around for years, but Japanese scientists have turned the idea into a simple and cost-effective sanitisation process, as Laurence Bailey, md of UK distributor EOwater, explains

Energy management

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Bioquell invests for future growth

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Electronic care provider improves safety from nutritional risks

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Drive launches anti-slip range

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The ultimate solution for hygienic water dispensing

Brita and Vivreau join forces to create ground-breaking new Hygiene Solution drinking water system for sensitive environments

C&C serves up just the tonic

Catering firm completes design, supply and installation of new café at Leighton Hospital