Andy Jones

  • Footprint Comment: HCA chair talks sustainability and hospital food

    YOU WILL have recently seen that NHS Scotland has announced a ‘Masterchef Cook-off’ for chefs across the NHS in Scotland.                   The Hospital Caterers Association welcomes this; we welcome anything which brings…

  • HCA Conference speakers call for wider NHS support for the role of nutrition and hydration

    THE 2014 Annual National Conference and Exhibition of the Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) took place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, NEC, Birmingham on 10 – 11 April. The HCA Annual National Conference and Exhibition is the premier annual event for…

  • Hospital Caterers Association signs up to waste agreement

    The Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) has signed up to the Hospitality and Food Service Agreement (HaFSA), committing to actively encourage its members to waste less food and associated packaging, as well as reuse and recycle more.        …

  • Hospital food under the knife with chef, James Martin

    TV CHEF and campaigner, James Martin, is once again taking up his tools and dissecting the issue of hospital food. Now in its third series, Operation Hospital Food (BBC 1), shows him on ‘a mission to transform the standards of…

  • New HCA chair announced

    ANDY JONES has become chair of the Hospital Caterers Association (HCA).    Jones was elected to the position at the association’s Annual General Meeting recently and has taken over from Janice Gillan.   Jones has been an active member of…