apetito is a global organisation with 50 years experience in providing frozen food and catering solutions to Care Homes, Local Authorities and Hospitals. We also provide a frozen meal delivery service to the public via our franchise Wiltshire Farm Foods and a community meals delivery service through Local Authorities via apetito Services.

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Hospital food catering and malnutrition

25 Mar, 2011

apetito on ITV West Country TonightITV's The West Country Tonight programme ran a report on hospital food and catering which highlighted how Derriford Hospital in Plymouth have improved their food catering and are seeing the benefits in patient health as well as receiving positive feedback on the food from patients, nurses and visitors since employing apetito as their food supplier.

The report highlighted the problem of malnutrition within hospitals by commenting "...across the country 13,500 patients become malnourished after being admitted to hospital...".

One nurse at Derriford commented that "...I remember a celiac patient recently who said that she'd been in many years ago and how she'd lost such a great amount of weight and on her most recent stay she said 'I actually looked forward to every single meal that comes...as it's really tasty' which is really quite unusual for celiac food, so I think it's greatly improved and patients are enjoying it."

The report also featured one of apetito's food tasting session which we ran on behalf of Derriford Hospital for their visitors in which the food received great feedback from those who took part.

Click the link below to watch the report:

http://www.itv.com/westcountry-west/hospital-food-taste-test61082/

Or view the clip on our YouTube channel.

Find out more about apetito's Hospital food range.