Page 2570 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 October 1992
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Since-that time the Labor Government has initiated major restructuring in the Food Services area. The cook-fresh system now in place at Woden Valley Hospital has resulted in savings utilising existing resources with minimal disruption to service delivery.
There have been no recent estimates of the cost of installing any new system as the efficiencies have been achieved through the introduction of the cook-fresh method. However if a cook-chill system was to be installed it would require major capital funding and would be an inevitable disruption to service.
As at July 1992 there were 202 F17E employed within Food Services at Woden Valley hospital, a reduction of 78.87 FTE since June 1990. This was a result of the implementation of structural efficiency principle and amalgamation of both hospitals.
The Woden Valley Hospital produced an average of 3 180 meals per day in 1991/92. This is a reduction over the 198889 figure. This is due to the amalgamation of the two hospitals and the consequent reduction in occupied bed days of over 12% and an increase in day patients of 836 (day patients receive only one meal per day). _ .
Currently no part of the catering service is contracted out.
Meals for the residents of Jindalee Nursing Home are prepared at Woden Valley Hospital using the cook-fresh process. The Hospital also provides a service to patients, staff, Meals on Wheels and a number of hostels and day centres. Since 198889 a service is no longer provided to Melba, Chapman and John Knight Hostels and with the closure of Royal Canberra Hospital the staff meals have decreased.
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