Food is fine
WITH regard to the critical comments of E. Shepherd concerning the quality of food at Worthing Hospital, I recently visited my wife in the hospital over a seven-week period and my observations are totally different.
I observed the food as it left the kitchens to be of a good standard and the helpings more than adequate for a person spending most of their time in bed.
If there is a problem, it is in the time elapsed from the production of the food to the point where it is actually served to the patient. On some days I was aware of a heated trolley containing patients’ meals sitting at the entrance to a ward for up to an hour and a half.
This, and the difficulty in nursing staff finding time to assist feeble patients with feeding I put down to inadequate staffing levels on the ward.
Christopher Dawson,
St Flora’s Road,
Littlehampton