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over the last decade 50 million pounds has been spent trying to improve the quality

of our hospital food. A third series of James Martin's Operation Hospital Food

has just finished on BBC One.

In fact, a recent study revealed that over a third of hospital food is still considered unacceptable by patients.

I rang James and asked him what after three series he sees as the big

problems in producing good food in hospitals. I suppose after five years there's so

many things ready

sixty percent of the hospitals don't actually serve very fresh food

so frozen as you know uh... the cook chill units

i want to go down that route there's no turning back because it requires a huge capital

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