Agenda item

Following a report in the Evening Standard the chair requested more information about

catering at the Maudsley Hospital and the Ladywell unit at Lewisham.

This is the news report:  

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/great-ormond-street-hospital-food-among-uk-worst-8838572.html

SLaM were asked:

1) To provide a copy or link to the report referred to in the article.

2) The article talks about an action plan to tackle these issues; please supply a copy of this.

3) How are SLaM currently holding Aramark to account?

4) Can you confirm that SLaM are intending to extend the contract with Aramark? If this is the case, and there are already concerns about catering and cleaning, on what grounds are SLaM doing this?

5) In what circumstances would SLaM retender the contract with Aramark?

13.1   The report was noted.