Monday 12 November 2018

Hospital food at risk from no-deal Brexit

Hospital food at risk from no-deal Brexit Department of Health writes to trusts advising of contingency plans for short supply of imported ingredients

Hospitals could run out of much of the imported food that goes into millions of patient meals in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the Department of Health and Social Care has admitted in a letter to all NHS trusts in England.

The department said it was urgently planning to cope with potential “short supply of certain ingredients imported from the EU”, which involves advising suppliers how to use “substitute foodstuffs to maintain nutritional balance” of meals. The Guardian

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