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L: Innovative Food Allergy, Mock Trial seminar to be taken online – 26 May 2021
L: Memorandum of understanding between the British Dietetic Association and the Hospital Caterers Association
L: The Hospital Food Review
L: Queen’s Birthday Honour for Catering Manager Geoff Moyle
L: Hospital catering manager wins award for Covid-19 response
L: HCA saddened at loss of past President’s husband
L: Public Sector Catering Webinar
L: Lauren Bowen and Maxine Cartz entered on the BDA Roll of Honour 2020
L: HCA saddened at the loss of Mike Duckett
L: Hospital Caterers Association (HCA), announces winners of its annual awards
L: We are thinking about you
L: #NHSChefHeroes
L: HCA Forum 2020 – Latest news
L: Prue Leith awards Musgrove Park Hospital Gold Best in Class at HRC’s Hospital Caterers Association Salon Culinaire
L: NHS Bids To Cut Up To 100 Million Plastic Straws, Cups And Cutlery From Hospitals
L: Public to have their say on the food system of the future
L: Managing director of leading retail equipment supplier appointed as new president of European Federation of Catering Equipment Manufacturers
L: NHS Supply Chain’s Statement Regarding STS BRCGS accreditation
L: University Hospital Lewisham achieves Soil Association award for healthy meals
L: ceda delighted with the impressive uptake of their new cedaSAFE accreditation
L: HCA Respond to National Food Strategy
L: BDA Statement on Listeria outbreak
L: Listeria outbreak statement – updated 18th June 2019
L: Hospital Caterers Association response to listeria breakout
L: Craft Guild of Chefs announces heavyweight speaker line-up for UCFF
L: Hospital caterers win big at HCA Awards 2019
L: Hospital Caterers Association forum discloses unique insight into NHS procurement
L: Members Network Newsletter – 28th April 2019
L: Hospital Caterers Association triumph at Cost Sector Catering Awards
L: HCA attends crucial Parliamentary debate
P: West Middlesex University Hospital renews contract with ISS Healthcare
P: Soil Association Certification launches foodservice guide for fresh produce growers
P: Tight Turnaround at Tiger Trailers for C&C
P: Victor Manufacturing rises to the challenge by providing new equipment to bakery chain, Wenzels
P: Industry comes out to congratulate Craft Guild of Chefs special award winner Michael Caines
P: Student Chefs win gold in outstanding Craft Guild of Chefs Wessex Salon Culinaire
P: Hospital caterers deliver best-in-class at HCA Wessex branch Salon Culinaire
T: Radnor to launch first vitamin D spring water drink in Tetra Pak packages
T: Hospital Live online: experience the latest Rational combi steamer
T: Making a real difference – apetito donates £40,000 to charity this Christmas
T: apetito launches roadmap to sustainability and ethical trading
T: apetito’s CCO, Ian Stone, takes on Chair and Presidency of the British Frozen Food Federation
T: Live online: check out Rational’s most advanced cooking systems ever
T: Update from STS
T: apetito welcomes findings of the Hospital Food Review
T: It’s official: the latest Rationals are design icons
T: New texture modified range launched by apetito
T: Knowledge from The Safer Food Group
T: Eight-year old climbs his way into record books with Mount Toubkal summit
T: Snacktime Vending rebrand as ‘The Vending People’ and launch innovative new pop-up-vending concept
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Healthcare Food and Beverage Service Standards – A Good Practice Guide to Ward Level Service
Retail and Commercial Service Standards – An operational guide to services
All Wales Nutrition and Catering Standards for Food and Fluid Provision for Hospital Inpatients
Care Quality Commission (CQC) – Essential Standards of Quality and Safety
Council of Europe Resolution Food and Nutritional Care in Hospitals (10 key characteristics)
Food in Hospitals – National Catering and Nutrition Specification for Food and Fluid Provision in Hospitals in Scotland
Hospital Food and Drink Strategy (DoH) – Food and Drink in NHS Hospitals – England
International Dysphagia Diet Standards
Nursing Care Standards for Patient Food in Hospital – Northern Ireland
Standards for food, fluid and nutritional care – Scotland
The Nutrition and Hydration Digest, 2nd Edition
Allergen Toolkit for Healthcare Catering
Care Solutions Guide
Commissioning Excellent Nutrition and Hydration 2015–2018
Listeriosis Information for Hospital Caterers During Covid-19 Pandemic
Dementia assessment and improvement framework
Dysphagia Diet Food Texture Descriptors
HCA Guide to Crohn’s Disease and Menu Idea
HCA Sample Protected Mealtimes Policy
Hospital Catering Solutions Guide
James Martin – Hospital Blueprint
Nutrition Toolkit for Healthcare Catering – Allergen Labelling
Preventing Waste in the Healthcare sector
Menu planning for preventing food waste
Simply Puree IDDSI Challenge
Better Hospital Food Plan (2000)
Compliance with hospital food standards in the NHS
Food Standards & Strategy Inaugural Meeting Notes
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The Hospital Food Standards Panel’s report on standards for food and drink in NHS hospitals
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