While you are in hospital, it's important that you eat enough of the right food to help with your recovery.
Our catering partner, Carillion, provide a wide choice on the menu, so that every diet can be catered for.
You will be given a menu to choose your meals from in advance; please ask the nursing staff to help you make your choices if you are at all unsure.
Please tell the nursing staff if:
Sometimes patients (particularly the elderly) who come into hospital are already malnourished or at risk of further malnourishment.
To reduce this risk we use a 'red jugs' and 'red trays' system, which indicates to staff that a patient might require additional supervision and/or support at mealtimes.
These vary throughout the Trust, and some wards have special arrangements (see the individual ward pages for details).
The following is a typical schedule of meal times, but the times are a very general approximation:
Please contact us at gwh.webmaster@nhs.net and we'll put it right.
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