The NHS is facing a constant challenge to deliver cost savings whilst ensuring a high standard of patient care, yet, with growing budget constraints and lack of resources, areas of significant impact on sustainability such as nutrition is being left behind.  

“Sustainable Healthy Diets are dietary patterns that promote all dimensions of individuals’ health and wellbeing; have low environmental pressure and impact; are accessible, affordable, safe and equitable; and are culturally acceptable.” – The British Dietic Association (BDA) 

From building menus around seasonality, to introducing more plant-based alternatives, there are a whole host of ways in which nutrition can be focussed on within the NHS’s green agenda.  

This webinar will host a panel of NHS and industry professionals as well as businesses with a range of innovative services and products to discuss how sustainable nutrition can be properly implemented into the NHS.  

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Our First Speaker:

Having worked for Quorn for almost 10 years, across all foodservice channels, Ellie brings her passion and expertise in food, food operations, nutrition and sustainability to the forefront when engaging with stakeholders from all sectors.  As the Senior lead for Net Positive at QuornPro,  she is a key driver behind their range of Net Positive initiatives and solutions.  Working on projects for both wholesale and catering clients Ellie has been leading for unique award-winning concepts that not only help to lower the impact of Carbon within their food supply chain these solutions deliver healthy nutrition without compromising on experience or taste.

Just as she supports those around her to realise their personal and professional sustainability goals, she has dedicated time to mentor young people to develop their environmental initiatives to tackle the climate crisis through the Young Green Briton Challenge. 

Ellie cares also a lot about food waste, working with known organisations to redistribute healthy and nutritious surplus food to help feed hungry children and their families across the country.

Our Second Speaker:

Bringing thirty years of corporate, military, hospitality, and restaurant ownership experience to the NHS, Tim's approach is that every patient deserves to eat restaurant-quality meals. A passionate proponent of food as medicine, he has appeared on Channel Four's Food Unwrapped and has been published on many occasions to showcase the opportunities, rather than the restrictions, of providing over 5,000 high-quality meals a day.

Winner of the Public Sector Hospital Caterer of the Year 2021 & Hospital Caterer of the Year 2022, Tim joined NHSE as Net Zero Food Programme Manager in August 2022, promoting the Net Zero Food Programme, which links intrinsically to the Food Standards and NHS Food Review. He is driving exemplary leadership throughout NHS catering.

Tim chairs the NHS Catering Exemplar Sites group and co-chairs the Expert Panel, focusing on 24/7 feeding for NHS staff.