Patients/family bringing in food

[Danielle Engelbrecht]

Hi Everyone,

Given the difficulty of ensuring that food brought in by patients and their relatives meet the required food standards, how are other hospitals ensuring that our patients, culturally, meet their food requirements but we (the hospital) provide food that only we have prepared and served.

Regards
Danielle

Clinical Nurse Consultant,

Infection Prevention & Control

Womens and Newborn Health Service

King Edward Memorial Hospital

Subiaco, WA 6008

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[Maree Sommerville]

Danielle,

We have a procedure for food brought by families.

Elements we have included:

* We don’t accept responsibility for externally prepared food

* We define storage conditions in line with our hospital food
plan

(such as fridge temp, daily monitoring etc.)

* We discuss re-heating

* All food must be labelled with date prepared/brought
in/patients name and bed number

* We define safe food and hazardous food.

Good luck

Maree Sommerville

Infection Control Coordinator

Mercy Hospital for Women

8458 4759

—–Original Message—–
Behalf Of Danielle Engelbrecht

Hi Everyone,

Given the difficulty of ensuring that food brought in by patients and
their relatives meet the required food standards, how are other
hospitals ensuring that our patients, culturally, meet their food
requirements but we (the hospital) provide food that only we have
prepared and served.

Regards

Danielle

Clinical Nurse Consultant,

Infection Prevention & Control

Womens and Newborn Health Service

King Edward Memorial Hospital

Subiaco, WA 6008

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