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  Runwood Homes appoints first group hospitality manager

  Passionate chef and culinary coach, Chris Williams, has joined Runwood Homes as the organisation’s first group hospitality manager; a role described as ‘pioneering’ with the aim of raising the bar in food standards and the mealtime experience in the organisation’s 71 residential care and nursing homes across England and Northern Ireland.

  
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  Sauter's recipe for success in Gracewell chef competition

  The head chef at Gracewell of Bath, Nick Sauter, has been named winner of the company’s in-house MasterChef Competition.

  
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  Young's rolls out nostalgic seaside bites to care home sector

  Young’s Foodservice has launched Seaside Bites into the care home sector. The scampi and whitefish bites are wrapped in Young’s signature crispy golden breadcrumbs and made from sustainable wild caught, hand-peeled scampi (sourced from the coastal waters of Great Britain and Ireland), and Wild Alaska Pollock.

  
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  Not too early to plan for nutrition and hydration week 2020

  Running this year from 16th – 22nd March, it’s not too early to start planning your activities to support Nutrition and Hydration Week (NH Week).

  
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  Western diet linked to age-related macular degeneration

  A Western diet – defined as high in consumption of red and processed meat, fried food, refined grains and high-fat dairy – may be a risk factor for developing late age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye condition that damages the retina and often affects the elderly.

  
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  Stevenage care home residents go back to school!

  School caterers, HCL alongside a primary school in Hertfordshire, are piloting a new project that brings elderly people from local care homes into its school so that both the children and the elderly residents can share a fun, lunchtime together.