Hospital cheese and ‘tomato’ sandwich

I was in hospital for 9 days. The food wasn’t fresh or nutritious and it wasn’t possible to eat a balanced diet from the very limited selection of reheated TV dinners and cold ‘snacks’ available. How can patients get better if they don’t have nutritious food? I’d be more than happy to pay properly for meals in hospital myself if they were of a reasonable standard. I don’t see why the food should be free. I do think good nutritious food is essential when you’re really ill and trying to recover. Photograph: Peta Moxon/GuardianWitness