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Last updated: Thursday, 25 April, 2002 15:32
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Workers
The 6500 daily hospital meals on the move

Watery chicken soup, lumpy mashed potato and dodgy sponge and custard normally spring to mind whenever hospital food is mentioned.
Greens
Eat your greens
However Southampton's hospitals have swept that image aside and have now been recognised for the quality of their nosh.

Hospital caterers in the City have been awarded a Charter Mark - it is the first full Charter Mark to be given to Southampton University Hospitals Trust.


The Mark is a government award for service provided to patients and staff in the Royal Southampton, Princess Anne and Southampton General Hospitals.

Menu
Todays's menu
The team make 6,500 meals a day with chefs and managers working with dieticians and other medical staff to devise individual tailored menus for patients.

Some of the more difficult requests include low potassium diets for renal patients in which potatoes are boiled twice to get salt and potassium out.

Some culanary traditions still remain though - there are roasts of the day and fish and chips on a friday.

Two of the team are going up to London to collect their award from Mo Mowlem.

 

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