Hospital Food

[nailit]

Whats your experience of hospital food been like?
Just got back from visiting my old mum in hospital and have had to take her some 'snacks' as she finds the food unpalatable.
Personally, Ive had no complaints about hospital food when Ive been there. My last taste of hospital food was 2 yrs ago in a psych ward and the food was exceptional. A good choice to choose from and a full English breakfast at the weekend. Obviously my mums in a different hospital (and expected to there for the next 2 weeks) but just isnt eating the 'muck' (as she refers to it).
Are some people just to fussy and set in their ways about what to eat (especialy the elderly) or IS some hospital food just muck?
Thanks.

[gness]

All may be aware, ala. But not all have the luxury of choice. Conditions such as kidney failure don't allow for choice or private treatment and you can be condemned to twelve years of treatment in a dirty hospital being served inedible food.

That may be fine in the short term, but imagine how you would feel at the end of a nine week stay.

[EDDIE51]

Nalit. I collapsed and fell down stairs . I had a temperature of over 40 due to double pneumonia and septicemia. Broken / dislocated finger and injured back.

[alavahalf]

gness ... in my post it can clearly be seen ..... " If your treatment isn't urgent and you can wait "

If you find yourself in the back of an ambulance with the blue lights going. "You wouldn't pop your head over the drivers shoulder and say
" Be a good lad and drop me off at the nearest BMI hospital".. would you ?

Funnily enough there was a time when I was a guest in an NHS hospital for a whole lot more than 9 weeks. I vaguely remember arriving in the ambulance with the blue lights going and a police escort.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone !


Or was that another time .. with an escort and a blue police uniform .. I can't remember.. it's all a blur ?

;-)

For those that are fortunate enough to have time on their hands and would prefer a better experience. Do your research, choose a private hospital and tell your GP where you want to go for your procedure. It is your right under NHS choices.
http://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk/patients/choosing-your

[gness]

I know you did, Ala.....but for some patients with all the time in the world and no flashing blue lights there is still not the choice you had...it's take this dump or leave it......:-)

[Daffy6543]

///I agree with retrocop. I subscribe to the theory that if you're well enough to complain about the food, you're not ill enough to be in hospital.////

Really stuey?
So bullous emhysema with repeated spontaneous pneumothorax requiring bullectomy and pleurectomy operations isn't very ill?
The last thing you need after major chest surgery like that is to be further weakened by inedible food. It wasn't just unpalatable, in some instances it wasn't cooked, we even got frozen tomatoes with the salad once :-/

[RATTER15]

///I agree with retrocop. I subscribe to the theory that if you're well enough to complain about the food, you're not ill enough to be in hospital.////

What silly nonsense, 90% of the people in hospital are fit enough to complain, do you really think they shouldn't be there?

[DaisyNonna]

A broken leg in traction does not diminish ones appetite.

[Daffy6543]

I hope that question wasn't aimed at me RATTER?
I was quoting and questioning stuey, that was his comment.

[RATTER15]

Lol no Daffy! at the original poster.

[paddywak]

Well there's only one more thing I can and that's that no matter how good or bad the food was the treatment was excellent,they gave me an extra 44+ years,even though I still get the odd twinge or two.