<p>Hospital Food Standards</p>

Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:06 pm on 21 June 2017.

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Photo of Janet Finch-Saunders Janet Finch-Saunders Conservative 3:06, 21 June 2017

I thank the Member for bringing this really important question to this Chamber again. Cabinet Secretary, with two deaths per day as a result of malnutrition and dehydration in the NHS across Wales and England, the older people’s commissioner has recently highlighted food remaining uneaten on trays, patients struggling to eat, and little or no encouragement on the ward—I can resonate with this experience—and patient diet plans and weight checks not always undertaken. Appropriate nutrition and hydration for the sick is equally as important as medication, treatment and care, and yet, it’s often overlooked. What steps are you taking to make sure that any patient admitted to hospital receives the appropriate nutrition and hydration they require, in order to assist in the overall care and treatment back to good health?