Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust

Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to providing the best treatment and care for patients in the region.

In this section, we have information about health eating, useful websites and how the Trust is improving patient mealtimes.

Facilities in the Trust

The Trust is committed to providing patients, staff and visitors access to a range of food choices.

As part of the Better Hospital Food initiative, the menus we provide for patients are carefully prepared to meet the majority of dietary, cultural and religious requirements.

You can find out more about patient food by clicking on the link below:

·          Patient Menus

For visitors, details of our cafes and restaurants on both sites can be found by clicking here.

On our website, you can also find more information about our Dietetic services

Regional Services

Surrey County Council has put together a collection of webpages on Health Eating including topics such as food logos, eating for your heart and vitamin information.

·          Surrey County Council: Healthy Eating

They also sponsor a page about school lunches.

Useful Websites

·          BBC Health: Eating Well

·          Department of Health: 5 a Day

·          NHS Direct: Healthy Eating

·          British Nutrition Foundation

·          Weight Watchers UK

·          Weight Concern

·          Food Fitness

·          Vegetarian Society

·          Food Standards Agency

·          FSA: Eat Well

·          FSA: Salt

·          Wired for Health: Life Bites

·          British Dietetic Association

·          BDA: Weight Wise

·          BDA: Teen Weight Wise

·          British Heart Foundation

Patient Leaflets

Our Dietetics department have produced the following leaflet for you to download:

·          The Balance of Good Health

The PRODIGY website has been created by the NHS to provide good quality patient information. They have a number of guides on healthy eating and lifestyle advice:

·          PRODIGY

Please note that the Trust does not endorse the information on external websites or guarantee its validity. Although care has been taken to select the most appropriate sites to this subject, with NHS services taking priority, the Trust is not responsible for their content or liable for any subsequent action taken without seeking prior advice from your healthcare professional.