Central News East: 02.06.1987: Hospital Health Food

Summary

Nick Franklin visits Leicester Royal Infirmary for the launch of a new health food diet for patients.

Year:

1987

Duration:

0:02:29

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

Betacam SP

Description

Display of healthy food and display of high fat food - sausage and chips and chocolate (to be avoided). Shots of opening speech from Professor Sir Robert Kilpatrick, Dean of Leicester Medical School. Shot crisps still on sale in the hospital shop. Shot of nurses taking food to patient in hospital bed. Interview with Di Spalding, district dietician, who said that hospital diets were already being rethought with the introduction of wholemeal bread as an option. Interview with chief dietician Jan Dawson who described some of the low fat food on offer. Vox pops with patients about the new menu.


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