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Health and Welfare

Improving standards in healthcare food

Merritt-Harrison Catering Consultancy has wide experience assisting clients in the health and welfare sector. Maximising uptake of meals, ensuring nutritional standards are maintained, and quality of service delivery are all key to improving the health and wellbeing of hospital patients and those in residential care homes.

All our consultants understand the challenges faced by caterers within this sector, and can offer advice and support in delivering a high quality and cost effective catering service.

Projects undertaken by Merritt-Harrison include:

• development of outline and full business cases for a number of acute NHS Trusts
• project management of catering and domestic tender; revision of specifications and agreement of contract extension with existing supplier
• market testing of soft services for PFI rehabilitation hospitals on behalf of a facilities management company, including revision of tender documentation, SLAs and KPIs
• development of specification and evaluation criteria for tendering of catering services for an acute hospital
• review of catering facilities and development of operational strategy for catering services at a teaching hospital
• co-ordination of a catering and domestic tender for a multi-site community NHS Trust
• regular monitoring of catering services and assistance with tender process for a leading university hospital
• advice to a number of NHS Trusts on alternative options for food service delivery
• review of food costs and associated issues for a care home
• preparation of catering specification and tendering exercise for residential care homes, for a national housing association
• review of catering for a group of care homes and implementation of new meal service provision
• support to NHS in-house teams in reducing costs or improving standards.

A selection of our health and welfare clients can be found on our client page>>>