Tuesday, 10am - THE standard of food at Boston's Pilgrim Hospital is good, according to the findings of an inspection by a team of NHS staff and patients.
The results were released by the National Patient Safety Agency as part of the annual Patient Environment Action Team inspections in the hospital for 2008.
The Patient Environment Action Team also gave the Pilgrim acceptable ratings for patient en
vironment and privacy and dignity.
Under the programme, every inpatient healthcare facility in England with more than ten beds is assessed and given a rating of excellent, good, acceptable, poor or unacceptable.
The three categories – environment, food, and privacy and dignity – look at issues such as ward cleanliness, toilets and bathrooms, décor, lighting, information, the quality, quantity, and temperature of food, single sex accommodation, patient confidentiality, and respect.
The NHS inspection teams also include patients, patient representatives and members of the public.
Mike Speakman, United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust's director of estates and facilities, said: "Over the last year the bar has raised again in terms of measuring how well we perform on environment, food, privacy and dignity.
"These scores show that we still continue to perform well in all of these areas as we have toughened up our practices and our teams have made real efforts to improve standards."
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