But having seen the new look menu, I believe the image of hospital food is well on the way to recovery.
But the Department of Health said a series of measures had been introduced under the Better Hospital Food programme.
Loyd Grossman, who led the Better Hospital Food initiative between 2001 and 2006, said although his team had a number of successes, their efforts were hampered by a lack of political will.
The government has insisted it is working to improve the quality of hospital food in England.
He said there had been an improvement in the quality of hospital food in recent years but that there were still malnourished patients in hospitals.
Instead of a container of gelatin or a glop of cake -- which have inspired photo blogs dedicated to the wonders of hospital food -- patients get an in-season peach or bowl of strawberries plucked from a nearby farm.
Doctors kept me in the hospital overnight, but not with regular hospital food.
Often, their access to gluten-free food relies on the hospital caterers having a range of appropriate foods stored in a cupboard or freezer.
Green and Hollister got emergency clearance from their hospital and the Food and Drug Administration to try the experimental treatment -- which had been used only on animals -- on Kaiba.
But a report commissioned by the NHS last year found that up to 40% of patients were malnourished in hospital and one in 10 would have had a shorter stay in hospital if the food was better.
There are patients at Rotherham who are being treated for all sorts of poor dietary-related conditions and the hospital should be offering food which is the role model of healthy eating.
Tests carried out by the toxicology unit of Ain Shams hospital in Cairo revealed that contaminated food was responsible for the mass food poisoning.
The CQC report in May said the hospital had failed to meet the required standard of food and drink provision and dignity for patients.
This past year, however, his difficulties with swallowing advanced to the point where he could not eat without aspirating food particles, and he cycled between hospital and rehabilitation facilities with the pneumonias that resulted.
They fully document the acquisition and management of the extensive estates which belonged to the Hospital, the management of the Hospital itself, even down to the level of purveyance of daily supplies of food and drink, as well as the physical and spiritual care of the poor and sick.
At least 20 people have been hit by a food poisoning outbreak at a hospital in the Channel Islands.
There are about 100 patients at the hospital, and they have plenty of food, water and medical supplies for now, he said.
David Wimhurst, spokesman for the United Nations' Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, said that while the food supply in the southern Iraqi town of Umm Qasr appears to be normal, the city's hospital is receiving 200 to 300 patients per week.
The hospital had no power, no water, food was running out and nurses were bagging patients by hand because ventilators didn't work.
Having locally grown fruits and vegetables next to a hospital gives people the visual connection between good food and better health, Maring said.
For patients staying in hospital there should be charges for food and the "hotel" elements of their stay.
Karen Morrisroe-Clutton, 32, who has a four-month-old son, was in intensive care after eating food from the takeaway and remains in isolation at Wrexham Maelor Hospital after being taken off a ventilator.
But hospital authorities told the court that Ms Shanbaug "accepts food in normal course and responds by facial expressions" and responds to "commands intermittently by making sounds".
When he started, the village was in the midst of a drought, and malnutrition was so prevalent that Dhillon would shove 16 skinny kids into the project's SUV to drive them to a hospital where food was available.
Albert Roux, who was asked in 1995 by the Department of Health to give his opinion about how to improve hospital food, added that "meetings, speeches and gimmicks" do not work.
That would act as a "huge magnet to pull new innovations through, right along the food-chain - from the labs, to the boardrooms, to the hospital bed".
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of The Patients Association, said patients regularly contacted their helpline about poor standards of food in hospital.
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