Hospital Catering and Patient Nutrition
Hospital Catering and Patient Nutrition
The
Auditor General for Wales published his report Hospital Catering and Patient
Nutrition in March 2011. He found that hospital catering services in Wales have
improved since 2002, but that more needs to be done to improve nutritional care
for hospital patients.
The
Fourth Assembly Public Accounts
Committee undertook an inquiry into this issue. That Committee was pleased
to see that improvements have been made since hospital catering was last the
subject of a performance audit in 2002. That Committee was disappointed that a
wide variation in the costs, planning and delivery of catering services across
NHS organisations in Wales persists, especially when the importance of good
nutrition in supporting patient’ recovery is well accepted by the Welsh
Government and reflected in its policy objectives.
The
Auditor General published a follow-up memorandum
(PDF 509KB) in September 2016 which the Committee considered on 19
September 2016. From that discussion, the Committee undertook a short follow-up
inquiry and published its Report in March 2017. The Committee monitored the
implementation of the Report recommendations and received regular updates from
the Welsh Government. The implementation of the final recommendations was
completed in November 2019.
Example
(PDF 618KB) of a menu at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Passage of the inquiry
The
following table sets out the dates and contents of each of the
evidence-gathering sessions during the inquiry.
Evidence
Session |
Date,
agenda and Minutes |
Transcript |
Video |
1. Health Boards Lynda Williams –Cwm Taf UHB Anthony Hayward – Cwm Taf UHB Rhiannon Jones –Powys Teaching
Health Board Helen Ward - Aneurin Bevan UHB Colin Phillpott - Aneurin Bevan
UHB |
Read
transcript of Evidence Session 1 (PDF 387KB) |
||
2. Welsh Government Dr Andrew Goodall Professor Jean White |
Read
transcript of Evidence Session 2 (PDF 387KB) |
Watch Lee Waters talking about the
report’s findings
Business type: Other
Status: Complete
First published: 16/08/2016
Documents
- Letter from the Welsh Government - 20 December 2019 PDF 933 KB
- Letter from the Welsh Government - 22 February 2018 PDF 230 KB
- Letter from Commitee Chair to the Welsh Government - 30 January 2018 PDF 145 KB
- Letter from the Welsh Government - 3 January 2018 PDF 211 KB
- Letter from Commitee Chair to the Welsh Government - 16 October 2017 PDF 158 KB
- Letter from the Welsh Government - 6 July 2017 PDF 267 KB
- Letter from Commitee Chair to the Welsh Government - 8 June 2017 PDF 144 KB
- Letter from Welsh Audit Office commenting on Welsh Government response to report (30 May 2017) PDF 108 KB
- Welsh Government Response - 11 May 2017 PDF 234 KB
- Committee Report - 20 March 2017 PDF 625 KB
- Chair's Statement - 20 March 2017 PDF 148 KB View as HTML (11) 23 KB
- Letter from the Welsh Government to the Chair - 14 December 2016 PDF 792 KB
- Letter from the Welsh Government to the Chair - 26 October 2016 PDF 261 KB
- Letter from the Chair of the Petitions Committee - 17 October 2016 PDF 187 KB View as HTML (14) 16 KB
- Letter from the Welsh Government - 11 October 2016 PDF 605 KB
- Letter from Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board - 18 November 2016 PDF 1 MB
- Letter from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - 21 November 2016 PDF 2 MB
- Sample patient menu from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - March 2017 PDF 618 KB View as HTML (18) 883 KB
- Letter from Betsi Cadwaladr Univesrity Health Board - 18 November 2016 PDF 486 KB
- Letter from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - 18 November 2016 PDF 453 KB
- Letter from Cwm Taf Health Board - 15 November 2016 PDF 826 KB
- Letter from Hywel Dda University Health Board - 18 November 2016 PDF 4 MB
- Letter from Powys Teaching Health Board - 16 November 2016 PDF 240 KB View as HTML (23) 40 KB
- Letter from Velindre NHS Trust - 27 October 2016 PDF 134 KB View as HTML (24) 22 KB
- Letter from ABUHB on Hospital Catering - 20 October 2016 PDF 40 KB
- Letter from the Welsh Government to Chair regarding the all Wales Hospital Menu Framework - 17 October 2016 PDF 318 KB
- Auditor General for Wales - Memorandum - September 2016 PDF 509 KB