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Springfield Hospital 2017-08-31 Person 5 5 0

My husband has had several day stays at Springfield over the years. The nursing staff and consultants have all been excellent. Whilst my husband, as a private patient, has his meals free as the Insured, I, as his wife, have had lovely meals which we're quite happy to pay for. He was in on Tuesday for a general anaesthetic for a hip problem. We both ordered up lunch - his was very nice, but mine was appalling. I ordered up a cheese omelette with chips. The omelette was like rubber and the chips, although I had a salt and pepper pot on the tray, was absolutely coated in salt. Even my husband who is a real salt person, said they made his mouth all dry and it was too much. The kitchen did offer me another meal without the salt on the chips, which I thanked them for but declined, then they offered me a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry then. Apparently, that is what they do - salt the patients food. No restaurant ever does that. You have the salt and pepper to put on if you want it, some people don't and some only want a pinch of salt. I know people who don't take salt at all because we're all being told how bad it is for us. I fail to understand how a hospital kitchen can salt or pepper a patient's food, actually on their plate, for them. Perhaps you could look into this matter and tell the kitchen to let the patient decide for themselves. This is my only complaint and has probably never occurred before as I always have a sandwich.