Nutrition in Residential Care Policy

Policy Statement

This home understands that the provision of a healthy, nutritious and balanced diet is of vital importance for the health and wellbeing of its service users and that the approach to nutrition should be based upon choice and quality at all times.

The home also believes that, with respect to food provided within the home or brought into the home, the home has a duty to ensure that service users should be kept as safe as possible from food poisoning and related food-associated illness by the adoption of high standards of food hygiene and food preparation.