NHS to stop offering weatabix for breakfast in hospital

[ladybird69]

I just wondered what others experienced in hospital recently. I was in hospital for 3 days and was never offered breakfast just had lunch and supper that we ticked boxes on menu for. I never knew that they did breakfast, no wonder I was starving.

sihtrics she had all other meals so not sure why you're acting as though she was starved. We can't micromanage everything, we can't be expected to check on everything for the 13+ patients we often have, I would expect a non cog impaired adult to be able to come to me if they had an issue with breakfast. I would notice if they haven't ate at all but I would not notice that they'd not had breakfast

Cereal/toast (usually with a layer of extra sugar on - jam etc) just whacks your blood sugar up and makes you hungry for very little nutritional benefit for a lot of people - it's basically filler. Nice if you can survive on that but i can't.

online genuine question, what would you usually have for brekkie? Anything the NHS would be able to afford - and wildly accepted by patients- like bread and cereal?

I was in for a week recently and could not get over the standard of food on offer.

Breakfast was cereal, toast, juice and a piece of fruit, hot drink and biscuits mid morning, lunch and dinner was soup, plus main meal (choice of hot meal, salads, omelettes or sandwiches) plus choice of hot or cold desserts and then hot drink and snack mid afternoon and evening.

I was so shocked at the variety and the quality - it was outstanding.

I was once NBM for 3 days and the staff forgot to put IV fluids up during that time. It was only because of a radiographer pointing out that I had ketones on my breath that I woke from my poorly stupor enough to remind the nurses that I should have been on IVI. Now that was poor care, surprised I didn't end up with an AKI

We always bring in fruit and supplementary food snacks as required.

A matter of opinion.

Well of course. My opinion was the 'why the fuck' comment was unnecessary. Your opinion is that it wasn't.

No need for you to challenge me on mine. It's ok for me to think that's bang out of order while you think it's ok.

You thinking it's ok doesn't make it any more ok than my thinking it's wrong makes it wrong in your opinion.

That's the thing about opinions, they are not the same.

We're not in a hospital so bloody get over it. We're on a huge massive internet board.

I don't really get your point. I never said or suggested we were in a hospital

White bread toasted, with butter or jams.
Cereal, optional sprinkling of sugar.
Carton of fruit juice.

Really quite awful on a child's ward for a type 1 diabetic.

I was in hospital with HG, ketones of 3 +, too weak to get up, on an alarmed drip plugged to the wall and on anti sickness drugs that knocked me out, still overwhelmed by nausea and throwing up regularly. Somehow I was supposed to come out of my stupor at the correct time, get up and walk through 2 wards, dragging the beeping drip, to get to the food hall The nurses found me an utter nuisance apart from the odd one that actually gave a fuck and broke the rules to bring food to my bed to make sure I could actually, you know, eat.

@prequelle

Options would be egg - scrambled, omlette? Poached fish? Sausages with a decent meat content, just plain would be fine. Some sugarless, full fat yoghurt? A high protein/fat shake of some kind? I usually just skip breakfast but it isnt an option for most.

If you asked for a roll and sausage in the beatson you always got it, that never worked in the royal though!

I have to say, when i have been in having my dd, i got offered breakfast, lunch and dinner. When i was last in my my youngest, i was expected to go and get it myself from a 'canteen'. It was very awkward as i had to leave my newborn to go and get it. It wasnt the best.

The hospital at the time was the Southern General hospital in Glasgow [now the new hospital]

Saying that, when a family member was in the Queen Elizabeth last year, they got all their food 'delivered'.

When DH was in a large teaching hospital in the NW of England there was a menu at the foot of the bed showing the standard offerings for all meals plus several pages of special diet food (light, soft, GF, diabetic, Kosher, Halal etc.). He could order pretty much whatever he liked. Once he was able to eat he had bacon sandwiches every lunch time for a week! And there were small cakes, biscuits and fruit with the tea rounds, which were frequent.

The meal times were a bit odd with tea (supper) happening at 4.30 on the whim of the (probably overstretched) catering staff, but the hospital clearly saw good nutrition as part of recovery.

I loved it after having DS. Walking proudly to the breakfast room with him in his mobile cot, helping myself to breakfast, feeling normal again. Meeting other women from different bays and seeing their babies. Getting their labour stories and telling mine. I was in for 3 days and looked forward to breakfast!

Had to stay for some days after my births. Lunch and dinner were pretty good - some might say heavy on the stodge, but IMO that's what you need after days in labour!

Breakfast however was bread, not toast, with jam, and butter was rock-hard portions which couldn't be spread on it.

At least there was a M&S downstairs which I ordered DP to go to to fetch me some better breakfast! It was the same when I had to spend a night with ds, only with extra bonus of not being able to leave him, and not being allowed any of the food myself because I wasn't the patient. Luckily ds was nil by mouth in the morning so I ate his breakfast anyway, or I would have become another patient!

The staff were running round desperately trying to get meds to give to patients and get the right patients to surgery - there just weren't any spare staff to worry about getting food to patients (or checking which ones shouldn't have food, in ds's case)

I don't understand why the options are so unhealthy. Why can't they just bring in some boiled eggs? Cheap, high protein, low carb, and not much to clean. I mean diabetic people should at least have some option. I had gestational diabetes and was left with nothing I could eat for breakfast after I had a c section with twins.

Is this another thread where op never returns

I’m the Op I posted after reading the article about NHS not serving weetabix any more as I hadn’t had breakfast whilst in hospital I didn’t think that they served it. I was in a bay with 3 other ladies, none of us had breakfast. A biscuit to nibble on and a piece of fruit would have been ideal and no extra work for the nurses. Btw the nursing staff were great.

It’s the job of the outsourcers not the nurses to ensure food gets to patients surely? That’s my experience of NHS hospitals. I don’t expect a qualified nurse to have the responsibility of ensuring I am fed, unless perhaps an eating disorder is in play.

My experience has generally been positive and on some wards they have had nutritionists bringing round shakes and ice cream and other snacks all nutritionally balanced.

Not bad when it’s not a hotel and we are not really there for the food.

It’s the job of the outsourcers not the nurses to ensure food gets to patients surely?

it's the nurse(s) responsibility that that is done though. and to a standard that doesn't leave vulnerable patients starving.

It’s the job of the outsourcers to get the food to the hospital in an edible state - and whether they do that is debatable.

It’s the hospital staff’s job, including nurses in each ward, to ensure that the food reaches the ward and that each patient on the ward is aware of the procedure for ordering- and collecting from a lounge/common room if necessary - their food.

I also missed out on breakfast on the post-natal ward. Apparently, we were supposed to go and get our own from a common room, but I didn't know this - also I was not able to walk by that stage!

Our local hospital does pretty good food but I'm always shocked at how shitty the breakfasts are: white bread, cornflakes, etc. Absolute crap!