Hospital food is poor fare

SIR – I was diagnosed with leukaemia on May 24 which came completely out of the blue.

I am now a long-term patient after just finished 23 sessions of chemo.

The worst thing is how your flavour buds are destroyed –everything tastes so bad, But as the hospital is under financial problems, the cost of drugs for my treatment would probably run into £50k – that is probably just for the drugs too.

The food is brought in heated in trays , like a ready meal, but it is of such poor quality, edible but so bad , the main course is just OK, but the vegetables are just frozen carrots, hard peas, frozen cubed swede, green beans are OK if warm enough.

Cabbage frozen chopped, not butter just frozen, I am sure you can imagine.

The soup is powdered so either too salty or thick. How cheap is it to make home-made soup?

The nurse have said seeing the TV cost £9 a day.

Why not offer freshly cooked food in their lovely kitchen and charge patients £5 a day, worth a trial don’t you think?

Mrs Patricia Stevens

Droitwich