Healthcare chefs have their day

8th February 2010, 2:06pm

The final day of the Cost Sector Catering Live event is given over to healthcare catering with contributions from both the Hospital Caterers’ Association and the National Association of Care Catering.

Cost Sector Catering Live's Healthcare Day will olffer visitors a chance to catch up the trends and standards being delivered day-in and day-out by some of the unsung heros of the catering world.

Chefs from hospitals and care homes will demonstrate to the wider hospitality industry that the skills and abilities within the less 'high profile' areas of the industry are equal to if not surpassing those of many areas of the 'profit' sector.

Many people who work within the cost sector are working with restrictions that the profit sector would find incredibly difficult to deliver to and CSC Live gives everyone a chance to understand and learn.

It also gives a daily focus to encourage cost sector employees to attend Hotelympia and to experience and participate in the wider hospitality industry, a chance to learn and even examine and perhaps challenge career choices and options.

The Hospital Caterers' Association (HCA) is taking charge of the morning sessions to highlight some of the challenges they operate under and the quality of food they are able to achieve despite these.

In the afternoon the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) plan to use a care home chef to show the quality and range of food that is made available to residents in care homes.

The focus of the day is on showcasing the skills that are required to deliver food that differs dramatically on a daily basis for people who may be long-stay patients in hospital or living in a care home.

The challenges the chefs need to rise to are feeding malnourished elderly residents and helping obese patients, all the while making sure tastes are catered for across every dietary and ethnic background.

Visit CSC Live to see how the chefs tackle these challenges.

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