Key Summary
- NHS serves Christmas cheer through thousands of festive meals
- Catering teams work behind the scenes to support patients and staff
- A heartfelt tradition, powered by dedication and care
NHS England serves hearty Christmas dinners and desserts for its patients and staff.
234,000 dinners and pudding will be provided to everyone on Christmas day.
The NHS catering teams are making this initiative come true.
The catering team at Stepping Hill Hospital at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust are preparing 750 of these meals.
In a LinkedIn post, NHS England said, “On Christmas Day, they will roast around 50 kilos of turkey, 60 kilos of potatoes, 12 kilos of pigs in blankets, 25 kilos of parsnips, 20 kilos of sprouts and 650 chocolate tarts.”
They added, “Thank you to NHS catering teams across the country for cooking up a feast this Christmas.”
Similar initiatives were reported across other NHS trusts.
At Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, around 3,000 staff would be on duty at Frimley Park, Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospitals, as well as at several satellite sites on Christmas, BBC reports.
The catering teams are preparing 1,000 full Christmas lunches for staff and up to 1,500 for patients.
This Christmas also marks 25 glorious years of Kim Ashcroft, a hospital caterer who prepares Christmas meals for patients, visitors, as well as frontline staff at North Tyneside General Hospital.
She has been making sure everyone at the hospital gets the joy of Christmas through her meals for the past quarter of a century.
She works tirelessly on Christmas day to serve breakfast for everyone at the hospital, says the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation rust.
