Patient meals
Our Catering Production Unit is based at our City Hospital Campus. The meals produced here by our chefs are served to patients by our Food Services team across all of our sites at NUH.
We work closely with local farms and food suppliers to support the use of British and local produce wherever possible across our menus. We use fresh ingredients to produce home cooked style dishes for our patients.
We are working towards our Green Plan and carbon reduction by sourcing sustainable ingredients, reducing our use of plastics, reducing food waste and recycling via bio digestors. We use more plant rich ingredients such as vegetables, fruits, beans, pulses and non dairy alternatives and ensure our energy use is efficient.
Good nutrition and hydration is essential, and is a fundamental of our treatment for patients. Our menus are created with support from our clinical teams to ensure that quality, taste and nutritional values are met.
Assisted mealtimes (mealtimes matter) aim to provide our patients with support and assistance to enhance their nutritional intake and give them time to enjoy the mealtime experience without non essential interruptions.
At NUH, we know that many factors can impact food intake and nutritional status, which includes age, race, religion, pregnancy, disability, sexuality and gender identity. We endeavor to ensure as many of our patients needs as possible. If any support is required with choosing appropriate options from our menus please speak to one of our ward team.
NUH is an accredited Hospital with Coeliac UK and our Food Hygiene rating is 5.
Many of our Dishes on our menus have been chosen by the people of Nottingham and our chefs have picked their favourite dishes to make. Look out for the chef's hat symbol to see which dishes are they are!
Adaptive crockery and cutlery is available to increase independent eating and drinking.
We provide blue crockery for our dementia patients, which can improve their intake.