Eight awards recognising ‘excellence, innovation and exceptional service’ in the care catering sector were handed out at the ceremony, held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.
The 'Level 2 Award in Professional Cookery in Health and Social Care' was developed by the National Association of Care Catering (NACC), Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) and the awarding body of
Partnered by WWF, Nourish Scotland and Food Cardiff, ‘Peas Please’ is hoping for over 20 pledges from organisations to be made at a summit event on 24 October.
The call comes from the Association of Public Service Excellence (APSE), which has just published a report into the subject.
The debate, which will discuss what more the government can do to sustain the service in the UK, will form part of the NACC’s Meals on Wheels Week.
Claiming every person over 40 should have an NHS diabetes check, the plans follow news that almost five million people in the UK have diabetes, which “is threatening to bankrupt the NHS” said Tam F
Despite this, there is clear demand for healthier alternatives – 40% of participants saying they would be “happy to pay more for healthy option foods as long as the products taste good.” Shining li
The catering and bakery training courses are provided by Providence Row, a charity that works with more than 1,400 homeless and vulnerably housed people a year in east London.
The website, set up to share ‘fabulous things’ about the NHS, reports that the system works when residents are categorised as ‘high risk’ following a Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) as
They met at Reading University to review progress on the issue and were told that a new standard (ISO 17480) had been officially recognised and testing against was already underway.