[Margaret Pilkington]

A-B......the plates of food are supposed to be covered......metal covers for hot food and plastic covers for salads.
The amount of money that is allocated per meal and per patient is ludicrously small. So it must be a hard job to make meals that are interesting enough to tempt the palate of a poorly patient.

Lettie is right about nurses feeding patients.....it was the only chance you got of having time to take the weight off your legs.
Nursing cadets used to help with the feeding of patients who couldn't feed themselves too.
I am greatly saddened by the decline in standards in the NHS.....it seems that the nurses who train today want to do all the technical stuff, but don't want to do the 'personal stuff'......and to be honest you found out more about patients worries when you were doing the personal stuff. I'm glad I'm out of it.