Issue - items at meetings - PLACE Assessment Results for BSUH

103.1    Nikki Luffingham, Chief Operating Officer, BSUH and Steve Gallagher, Operational Director, Facilities and Estates, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, gave a presentation on the PLACE assessment results and answered questions.

103.2    The Healthwatch representative commented that she was very pleased that the menus would be reviewed; Healthwatch had heard that the menus were not able to address simple dietary requirements such as low-fat menus. Councillors added that they had experienced a lack of awareness about diabetic dietary needs which was worrying.

Ms Luffingham said that it was disappointing that this had been the case and that they would feed back the information to the Chief Dietician.

103.3    Members asked for clarification of how the scores had been calculated. Mr Gallagher said that the categories were predefined by central Government and the percentages were worked out centrally, by the Department of Health. They were not explicit about how they had arrived at the exact percentages. BSUH is due to meet with the Department of Health in December so will feed this back and ask for more information.

103.4    Members were invited to take part in the next PLACE assessment; details had been emailed to everyone.