Hospitals told to ensure staff can access healthy hot and cold food 24 hours a day

NHS trusts will have to ensure that their staff can access healthy hot and cold food 24 hours a day under new food standards published by NHS England.1The standards follow a year long grass roots campaign (#NoHungryNHSStaff), led by Neely Mozawala, a community specialist diabetes podiatrist based in Somerset who founded the campaign, and Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, a gastroenterologist and winner of BBC One’s Masterchef 2017, to make healthy and affordable food available to NHS staff working nights and weekends.2In 2014 an independent report commissioned by the Department of Health led to legally binding standards on the nutritional quality of the food served to staff and patients in hospitals, but there was no requirement for this food to be available 24 hours a day.3A survey of members by the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS), press released last week, found that 32% of doctors aged between 25 and…
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