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To upgrade the Hospice Kitchen including the introduction of Gas as the main energy source. This will improve facilities for patients, volunteers and staff. The hospice provides about 37,000 meals a year.

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  • Cancer Cancer
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Hospitals/Hospices Hospitals/​Hospices
  • Medical Research Medical Research
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Older People Older People
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other

    Situation

    The Hospice kitchen is currently all electric and is in desperate need of modernisation and refurbishment. Most of the kitchen still retains much of the originally installed equipment, which was second hand at the time it was installed in 1991. Recent repairers have indicated the increasingly poor state of our appliances, both for cooking and storing food. In some cases the almost unavailability of parts for appliances leaves us in a very precarious position. Our serving area (Chefs Pass) is no longer big enough for the number of meals required and we have difficulty storing ‘hot’ food prior to serving at a suitable temperature. The floor is very worn and now presents a trip/slip hazard in some areas and the extraction system no longer works effectively meaning the working environment for the chefs and volunteers in very warm. Given the introduction of Gas to the hospice site following a recent building development and the increase in the catering requirements following the extension to our Children's Hospice and the now nearly complete Day Care extension it was considered that the refurbishment of the Kitchen should become a major priority for the hospice and at the same time introduce gas as our main energy source for cooking as this is more cost effective than electricity. Once installed the running costs of the kitchen will be significantly reduced. Both in terms of the cost to cook the meals but also in the reduced maintenance costs which will be incurred by the introduction of new appliances under warranty and with the option of obtaining a maintenance contract for the new appliances which is not available with our existing equipment. The provision of meals/snacks to anyone other than patients is charged for and the revenue raised used to help sustain the cost of this facility the balance coming from the general hospice funds.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Cancer Cancer
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Hospitals/Hospices Hospitals/​Hospices
  • Medical Research Medical Research
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Older People Older People
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other