Estates and Facilities Department is responsible for the Trust’s Patient Catering service. Our service team knows food is important to the patients across Leicester's Hospitals, both to aid recovery and to make their meal experience enjoyable. We are constantly reviewing the meals offered to patients to ensure the food provided is safe, tasty and nutritious.
The Trust offers standard adult and children menus as well as many specialist menus for patients with medical/dietary requirements. Vegetarian, vegan and cultural diets are catered for, please speak to a ward-based Housekeeper or the Catering Meal Order Assistant who visits the wards twice daily (during mid-morning and mid-afternoon to take orders for lunch and evening meals respectively). A ward catering folder should be available in the ward kitchen or in the ward office, please enquire about the additional choices that are available within our hospitals. Alternatively, ask a member of the nursing team to contact the Catering team leader if you have any queries/comments regarding the menus or other aspects of the catering service. The catering team is available during the operating hours of 08:00 – 19:00 daily. They would be pleased to come to the ward to assist further.
We are aware that sometimes, families may wish to bring in comfort food for their relatives. Before you bring food in, please kindly beware in the interest of the safety of wellbeing of our patients, we would not recommend bringing high risk items, such as, foods that require chilled/frozen temperature storage or meals that have been cooked elsewhere or food that requires further processing/heating prior to consumption.
Please note that our ward kitchens have very limited storage space. They are not equipped for storing/cooking/reheating foods that have not been sourced by the hospitals. Packaged dry products eg cakes (unless they are cream filled), sweets, biscuits, chocolate and thoroughly washed fresh fruits are usually lower risks. Patients should be able to keep them by using the locker or beside trolley provided. Please check with the ward team if you have any questions regard the ward storage facilities.
We wish every patient the best with their treatment and recovery. We also hope you find our food acceptable and enjoyable. Many thanks for reading our page, your cooperation would be much appreciated. If you could spare a moment, please use the QR code on the menu to provide feedback about the food.
Menus
Listed below are all our current menus for patient catering. If any information you require is missing please contact the catering team by calling the switchboard on 0300 303 1573 and asking for the catering department at the location you need.
Breakfast Menus
- Standard and Renal options are included on the main menus below
- Textured Modified Menu
- Maternity Menu
Adult
Renal
Standard Menu
Translated Standard Menu African Caribbean Menu
Kosher Menu
Vegan Menu
Jain Menu
Children's Menus
Special Diet Menus
Snack Menus
24 Hour Snack Bag Service
Snack bags are available 24 hours a day for patients who have missed their main meal times. Options are available for the meat, vegetarian, renal, gluten free and children diets.
These can be obtained by speaking to a catering assistant, ward hostess or member of the nursing team.
