Frightening Incompetence
Every food service operation has some problems matching supply with demand, but strikes me as staggering incompetence (via a reader):
Hospitals are throwing away as much as half of their food, NHS figures show.
Close
to 13 million meals were thrown away last year, with 33 hospitals
dumping more than a quarter of their food, including two that discarded
more than was eaten.Meanwhile, almost 140,000 patients left hospital malnourished, double the figure a decade ago.
Last year, Ivan Lewis, the health minister, admitted that many elderly
people were in effect being starved in hospitals. He said that some
were given a single scoop of mashed potato as a meal, while others were
"tortured" with trays of food placed beyond their reach and no help
with eating.
Maybe the last bit shows that the Brits are enshrining the same "duty to die" that is being discussed in Canada.
