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Dispatches programme looks at hospital food
The NHS Confederation says there is significant room to improve hospital food but that the majority people rate their food as 'good' or 'very good'.
Read their full response to Channel 4's Dispatches programme (21 February).
A spokesman for the NHS Confederation said: “It is clear that there is significant room to improve hospital food but the Care Quality Commission’s survey results also show that the majority people rate their food as good or very good.
"This will be more true for some organisations than others. It is really important for hospitals to listen and respond to the feedback they are getting.”
National inpatient survey
Summarising results about the quality of hospital food from the last national inpatient survey, the Care Quality Commission said: “Of those respondents who had hospital food, a fifth (20%) rated it as 'very good', no change from 2008 but an increase from 18% in 2002. Just over a third (35%) described the food as 'good', a decrease of one percentage point since 2008; 30% of respondents thought it was 'fair'. There has been a statistically significant increase, of less than one percentage point, from 2008 in the proportion of respondents who rated the food as poor (14%).“
More than 69,000 adult patients from 162 acute and specialist NHS trusts in England responded to the 2009 inpatient survey between September 2009 and January 2010.
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