Complimentary breakfasts are on the menu for all staff at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.
A hospital is giving its staff a helping hand by offering them free breakfasts and heavily discounted lunches.
All staff at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital can now access free breakfasts and £2 lunches at the hospital’s onsite restaurant.
The breakfast offer allows staff to choose between a bowl of porridge or two slices of toast with butter.
The main meals ‘winter warmer’ deal runs on a four-week rolling menu with two options each day – a meat dish or a plant-based alternative.
Free tea and coffee has also been made available for all wards and departments, as well as squash for those who do not like hot drinks.
It comes as the whole country has been hit by a perfect storm of raging inflation and spiralling interest rates that have hit the value of the pound in our pockets.
A cost of living crisis.
Chief Executive of the trust, Stacey Keegan explained, “The cost-of-living crisis is affecting all of us and we knew we wanted to see what we could do to support our staff at what is a difficult time.
“We put a working group together and carried out a staff survey to understand the challenges our people are facing. The cost of food was one of the strong themes that emerged, so it was an area where we were very keen to help.
“We have an incredible catering team, whose food was again rated No 1 in England across all hospitals earlier this year – for the 16th time in the last 17 years. It’s a team who are always up for a challenge and they have put this offer together.
“We’ve been delighted to see how well received it has been, and we are still looking at what other measures we can take to help our staff out. We are an organisation that really cares for our people, so this was something we felt we had to do.”
