Internal Reference Number: FOI_7824
Date Request Received: 13/03/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 02/04/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Patient meals
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: For each question, please provide figures For the trust as a whole, and then for each individual hospital under your trust For the last 5 financial years, NOT calendar years. Please include this financial year too: 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 (for this year, please provide the figures from the start of the year to 29/02/2024) The total 拢 amount spent on patient meals. I would like a figure for just the food / ingredients, without including staff costs or equipment. | |
| Answer To Question 1: The Trust does not record this information. | |
| Question Number 2: The total number of meals served to patients (including breakfast if possible) | |
| Answer To Question 2: No of meals requested and issued (Includes breakfast) 2019/2020 449469 2020/2021 369204 2021/2022 377117 2022/2023 419007 2023/2024 Information not yet available | |
| Question Number 3: The average daily cost of meals per patient in 拢. I.e how much does it cost to feed one patient for a day, taking just the food / ingredients costs into account, so again not including staff costs or equipment. Provide this as an average over the year, along with a note on the method used to work this out if possible | |
| Answer To Question 3: Cost Per meal 2019/2020 3.40 2020/2021 3.96 2021/2022 3.86 2022/2023 3.75 2023/2024 Information not yet available | |
| Question Number 4: The average number of patients you fed per day over the year (i.e on any given day we fed an average of 100 patients) | |
| Answer To Question 4: On any given day the Trust fed an average of 434 patients, this number has been calculated based on the average number of occupied inpatient beds per day in 2023/24 (both adults and children). | |
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