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L: HCA Forum 2020 – Latest news
L: Commercial Kitchen 2020
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
L: Tribute to C&C founder John Kitchin
L: NHS Improvement Food Standards and Strategy Workshop
L: Victory for the Hospital Caterers Association at 25th Cost Sector Catering Awards
L: One Aldwych Hotel team is honoured at inaugural Craft Guild of Chefs National Team of the Year, Hotelympia
L: HCA supports pledge for legally enforced nutritional standards
L: Freeman Hospital takes Silver best in class at Salon Culinaire Hotelympia, HCA Hot Cookery Competition
L: Hospital Caterers Association honours industry at its 70th Anniversary awards ceremony
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
P: BNF launches a handy guide to get portion wise
P: Statement on the implementation of the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI)
P: Businesses commit to Courtauld Commitment 2025 Water Ambition to cut environmental cost of food & drink
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
T: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust look to ISS and the Future
T: Moffat’s new hospital foodservice trolley delivers flexibility, energy efficiency and food quality
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MNW Branch Meeting
MNW Branch Meeting (1)
MNW Branch Meeting (3)
MNW Branch Meeting (2)
MNW Branch Meeting (4)
NI Branch Meeting (1)
NI Joint Branch Meeting with Northern Branch
NI Branch Meeting (3)
NI Branch Meeting (4)
NI AGM
NW Branch Meeting – Natasha’s Law – Catering Members will be sharing their best practice to help bring standardised methods to branch members
NW 22nd Anniversary Summer Ball
NW Joint Branch Meeting – Summer BBQ/Interbranch Games Go Carting
NW Educational Exchange Day
NW AGM and Branch Meeting
O AGM
SW Branch Meeting (2)
T Branch Meeting (3)
T Branch Meeting (4)
T Branch Meeting (5)
W Branch Meeting (1)
W Branch Meeting (2)
W Summer Social
W Branch Meeting (4)
W Branch Meeting (5)
W AGM
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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
COVID 19 Advice and Guidance For Hospitals
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
HCA Strategy
The Hospital Food Standards Panel’s report on standards for food and drink in NHS hospitals
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