Hospitals: Food

(asked on 11th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the spending per in-patient in England on NHS meals was per (a) hospital stay and (b) day in each year since 2009-10.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 21st May 2018

Spending per in-patient in England on National Health Service meals per hospital stay is not collected centrally.

NHS food and meals data is collected annually through Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC). All ERIC data for all trusts in England is published at the following link:

http://hefs.hscic.gov.uk/ERIC.asp

It includes the cost of feeding one in-patient per day (patient meal day) for all NHS organisations.

The average cost of feeding one in-patient per day (patient meal day) is in the attached table, collected at trust level from 2009/10 and trust and site level from 2012/13.

The definition of cost includes all pay and non-pay, including provisions, ward issues, disposables, equipment and its maintenance, in addition to provisions and equipment costs related to self-catering arrangements. NHS trusts make decisions locally regarding the type of meals provided and their method of preparation to meet the needs of their patients, which will result in differing costs at trusts.

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