Carillion - General - UK, Building Better Healthcare Awards 2006

Date: 13 Nov 2006

Carillion has won an award for Services to Hospital Catering at the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2006. The award was given in recognition of the catering services Carillion delivers at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

Carillion's facilities director, Neil Sutherland, received the award from Professor Heinz Wolff during a ceremony held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in London. He said: "This award is a fantastic recognition of the wide range of catering initiatives delivered by the Carillion team in the past 12 months. These include the introduction of Fairtrade drinks for patients, visitors and staff, including 'One' water which funds community wells in Africa. We've also introduced a Curry Club with tasty meals served in authentic steel balti dishes, and we have a commitment to supply only the finest quality, locally-sourced fresh vegetables to our patients.

"These and other initiatives followed the introduction last year of major parts of the Department of Health's Better Hospital Food programme which provides 'chef's special' menu selections developed by celebrity chefs such as Lloyd Grossman. It is significant that we have delivered all of these catering upgrades at no extra cost to the Trust, through working hard with our suppliers and examining our methods of working."

Carillion completed construction of the £135m Great Western Hospital in 2002 and the attached £29m Brunel Treatment Centre early in 2005. It is now operating the facilities under a 30-year PFI contract, providing catering, cleaning, helpdesk, security, portering and estates management services to the Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust.

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