Eating well with SWFT

Vision

The Trust has developed a vision regarding food and drink. All Trust services relating to food and drink, the supporting education and promotional activities are measured against this.

The Trust is committed to:

• Creating a retail environment to encourage staff and visitors to select healthier food items by either choice or awareness.
• Increasing interaction between patients to increase; motivation, morale, aid to healing and improved nutrition, keeping patients mobile and improved overall dining experience.
• Support the patients at meal times by encouraging them to eat their meals and enjoy a cup of tea and a chat with a volunteer for company.
• Minimising the food waste and reducing single use plastic.

Strategy

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust’s Food and Drink Strategy covering nutritional care, healthy eating and sustainable food provision has been developed using the recommendations of the Hospital Food Standards Panel 2014. This referenced five required national standards that must be met:

• BAPEN: Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool
• British Dietetic Association: Nutrition and Hydration Digest: Improving Outcomes through Food and Beverage Services
• NHS England: 10 Key Characteristics of Good Nutritional Care
• Public Health England: Healthier and More Sustainable Catering: Nutrition Principles
• Public Health England: Government Buying Standard for Food and Catering Services.

Nutrition and Hydration are widely recognized as medicine in the overall treatment for patients supporting wellbeing and recovery. We provide meals across a 3 week menu cycle, with additional a la carte menus with special dietary requirements including Modified Texture, Allergen-free, Cultural (including Halal), Vegan and Finger Food, Low Residue and No Added Salt. Menus are reviewed twice a year and are planned, designed and dietary coded by the ISS Specialist Food Service Dietitians. Modified Texture meals are tested and approved for safety by our supplier’s Speech and Language Therapist.

Menus are coded to provide guidance relevant to the diet and for those patients with multiple dietary restrictions i.e. higher energy, healthier eating, easy to chew, gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan and lower potassium. Menu reviews take into account extensive food tasting, patient feedback, dietary considerations and include both modern and traditional hot meals, seasonal options and dessert choices with an emphasis on increasing our plant based and lower carbon options.

We provide access to a Nutrition and Allergen Portal via a QR code on the menus giving live nutrition, allergen and ingredient information for our meals. This is available to patients, relatives and staff to help give more control over decisions over their own health and wellbeing and supports personalised menu choices.

Spring/ Summer 2024 Menu:

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3

Catering at Leamington Hospital

• Restaurant: Open 7 days a week 8:30am - 3:30pm for hot meals, sandwiches, salads and drinks.
• Coffee Shop: Open Monday to Friday 8:30am - 1:30pm. Weekends closed. They serve tea, coffee, sandwiches, cakes and confectionary.
• Vending: 24hr Starbucks coffee vending machine. There are machines dispensing hot and cold drinks and snacks in the corridor between Chadwick and Feldon Wards.

Catering at Stratford Hospital

Café Lomas (in Building One):

• Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 2:30pm
• Friday 8:30am - 2:00pm
• Saturday & Sunday Closed

Freshly ground coffee, a selection of teas, hot chocolates and cold drinks. Hot and cold sandwiches, paninis, toasties, jacket potatoes, soups and salads. There is also a selection of pastries and confectionary.

Everything at Cafe Lomas is freshly prepared for you. Each morning the team make a selection of "grab and go" sandwiches.

Café Lomas offers both eat in and take away service if you have an appointment or you are on a break. The area has ample seating inside and two outside areas for you to sit and enjoy your snacks and drinks.

Catering at Warwick Hospital

• Restaurant: Open Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 7:00pm (Breakfast served 8:00am - 11:00am, Lunch 12:00pm - 2:30pm and Go Global 11:30am - 7:00pm). Weekends 8:00am - 2:30pm. In addition, all staff members receive 10% discount on hot food served in the restaurant from the hot servery area only at breakfast and lunch.
• Costa Coffee Shop: Open 7 days a week 7:00am - 8:00pm.
• Vending: Sandwiches, salads, microwave meals, hot and cold drinks, and snacks are available from the vending suite by the restaurant.
  • Snacks and cold drink vending machines can be found:
    • Outside ED
    • On the first floor by Maternity
    • Outpatient’s blue waiting area
    • Machen Eye Unit
  • A hot drink vending machine can be found:
    • Outside ED
    • Outpatient’s blue waiting area

Sustainable catering

Trust works with ISS UK, which provides soft services, including patient feeding and retail. Click here to view the Sustainability Strategy.

ISS UK has been working to reduce Carbon footprint in retail menus. Please click here for more information.

ISS UK has tied up with Olio, whereby any retail item which is coming towards the Use by date is collected and redistributed in Community, click here for more information: Olio x ISS.

Resources

• Information for people bringing food into the Trust
• Care of adults
• Care of children

Useful links:

• Warwickshire nutrition and hydration standards
• Click here to find local community cafés, lunch clubs or food banks.