Hospital food

summer21

Saw this in todays indo

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/hse-sharpening-its-scalpel-as-hospital-meal-costs-hit-40-3161611.html

Found this unbelivable. Having had a few stints in hosipita recently i found the food virtually inedible.

kingofkong

words can't describe how much this angers me

thanks for the link OP

Dr.NickRiviera

If its any consolation the sludge they pass to hospital staff isn't much better...

opticnerve

Tallaght Hospital must have the worst food in Ireland The tea is like warm cabbage water , when you see the patients buying their tea from the shop down stairs it says everything . The management of the food provision is appalling . They seem to have people hanging around for hours to serve food that looks and smells like it was cooked 2 days ago by someone who was sent to cookery school for half a day It arrives in the wards in warming ovens that must have come from Cork. The water jugs are cracked the trays are dirty I could go on . I read somewhere that Portlaoise prison spend double on ingredients per meal than Tallaght hospital . It should have a warning on the way in being sick can make you ill

optic

gctest50

This is more concerning :

Dr.NickRiviera wrote: »

If its any consolation the sludge they pass to hospital staff isn't much better...

Figures on cleaning services, for example,

showed that the cost of scrubbing a single square meter of a hospital building was €14.75 in one facility, compared to €2.01 in another.

One maternity hospital spends €12.71 while another pays €6.51.

The cost of cleaning a kilo of linen, meanwhile, varied from 29 cents to €2.37.

Kevster

I'll just add my own piece: I've had extended stays in 2 of Dublin's hospitals and thought that the food was great, one of these being Saint James's Hospital for 2 weeks.

opticnerve

Yes not all Hospital food is bad St Lukes in Rathgar I would give 5 stars food is excellent and served hot but Tallaght is horrible the worst ever

optic

lonestargirl

opticnerve wrote: »

St Lukes in Rathgar I would give 5 stars food is excellent and served hot

Agreed, it's pretty cheap too.

spurious

While I was in Beaumont, I couldn't touch the food for the first week, I was so ill, but once I started to get better it tasted OK.

It looked pretty bad, so presentation zero, but it certainly wasn't the worst food I've ever had.

xzanti

I must be very easily pleased.. the last time I had Hospital food was in the Rotunda and it was lovely.. having said that, I was in Hospital for the whole of Christmas so maybe I was getting the 'good' stuff

RobFowl

Have had the "pleasure" of hospital food in St James and the hermitage in Lucan. Both were fine and IMO well presented.

pwurple

Food in the bons in cork is pretty good. Twould want to be though, for the nightly rate!

Jawgap

Had a few days in the Mater recently and the food was terrible - cooked to mush, salty! - and the cheapest of cheap ingredients.

Menu and catering planning seemed non-existent.