Essex: Hospital recruiting mealtime volunteers to help patients

4:34pm Sunday 21st October 2012 in News

Volunteers are being recruited to help hospital patients during mealtimes.

Mid Essex Hospitals Trust, which runs Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, said its Mealtime Mission will help ensure they have enough to eat and drink.

Volunteers will help ward staff by offering extra support and companionship to patients who need it.

There is an open day tomorrow from 10am to 3pm in the concourse of the Medical Academic Unit at Broomfield Hospital.

Alternatively, call Angela Wade or Jonathan Wright on 01245 514577 or e-mail jonathan.wright@meht.nhs.uk

Comments (1)

12:38pm Mon 22 Oct 12

The Yellow Peril says...

Isn't that what the nurses are supposed to do? I read recently that many people die of thirst and starvation in hospital. My personal experience of nurses in general wards is very poor. I have seen them walk by as an old person laid flat on his back with a bowl of cereal placed on his belly.
Isn't that what the nurses are supposed to do? I read recently that many people die of thirst and starvation in hospital. My personal experience of nurses in general wards is very poor. I have seen them walk by as an old person laid flat on his back with a bowl of cereal placed on his belly. The Yellow Peril

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