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Health and Welfare

Reducing costs and improving food standards

Merritt-Harrison Catering Consultancy is the leading catering consultancy in the health and welfare sector and has wide experience of assisting both public and private healthcare clients. 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:

• support to a number of NHS Trusts with tendering of patient and staff catering, including development of specifications and evaluation of submissions
• review of catering bids as part of a hotel services tender for a large acute hospital and support to Trust management in negotiations with potential providers
• operational and financial review of catering department and central production unit for a Foundation Trust serving three sites, including appraisal of catering facilities and recommendations for future service delivery
• 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
• support to NHS in-house teams in reducing costs or improving standards
• review of inpatient and staff dining for an independent charity hospital in London
• advice on design of private patients' catering facilities and tendering of catering contract for a London hospital
• 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

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