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Jul 14
Quality of food
They say diet is an important aspect of cancer treatment, thought the NHS has cut the budget to a minimal for food, and the quality of food is extremely poor, particularly for people receiving chemotherapy who are already having taste/eating problems. Having spent 3 4-6 week periods receiving treatment for Leukeamia in hospital, I spent quite a period of time hungry as the menu wasn’t very extensive and the food was hardly edible by the time we received it. The fact that you couldn’t leave the ward to go to shop as you were neutropenic meant that ya survived on the bare minimal and as family lived quite a distance, you only had visitors a few times a week. The quality of the food in Belfast City hospital almost made a bad time worse