Australian Health Directory

Fresh, healthy, nourishing and appetising food is an essential part of caring for hospital patients and aged care residents. In addition to quality, budget is an important consideration for managers of health and aged care services.

Food services are often part of the hospital ancillary and food services division. Food and hospitality services in Australian health and aged care facilities can be managed in-house, contracted out to organisations that specialise delivering these services to health care operators or provided as a shared service.

Sustainable food procurement is attracting more attention with a growing concern for the environment and the increasing cost of transport and packaging factored into the price. Sustainable food procurement takes into consideration real and environmental costs such as transport pollution and food preparation waste.

Food standards are set by Food Standards Australia New Zealand, an independent statutory agency that is part of the Australian Government's Health and Ageing portfolio.

This category is in the process of listing hospital food suppliers, hospitality service providers, manufacturers, distributors, caterers, wholesalers, specialist hospital ancillary and food services providers, large and small.