U.K. charity banned from donating food to hospital

Organization was told that the hospital would no longer accept food from outside sources


A Maryport, England, charity has been banned from donating food to the town’s hospital because of health and safety concerns, according to an article on the Times and Star website.

For more than 20 years, the Victoria Cottage Hospital’s league of friends has given lamb and ham at Easter and turkeys at Christmas. But recently the group was told that the hospital could no longer accept food from outside sources.

According to an NHS spokesman there are health and safety issues.

“We are required to adhere to a strict food safety policy in order to protect our patients, some of whom are vulnerable," she said.

Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, is meanwhile proposing changes to catering at the 13-bed site.

The hospital could lose its kitchen in favor of ready-made meals brought in from elsewhere and then microwaved.

Read the article.

 

 



April 25, 2014


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