Commercial Kitchen, Laundry and Sluice Room

Food and the general mealtime experience contribute very highly to a person's quality of life: eating well is fundamental to health and well-being, while failure to receive adequate nourishment - because of illness, physical inability to eat, mental disturbance, or because the food offered is not suitable or appealing enough - can lead to vulnerability to infection, failure to recover from illness or injury and a general deterioration in physical and mental condition.

A major contribution to hygiene and infection control, the sluice room is a dedicated place for cleaning reusable equipment like bedpans, raised toilet seats and urine bottles, and disposing of items such as nappies and incontinence pads. Laundry equipment for nursing and care homes must also play its part in preventing cross infection and the spread of superbugs such as Clostridium difficile and MRSA.

This area focuses on catering equipment and services, care homes supplies, laundry, sluice room and other industrial equipment suitable for the nursing home and residential care home environment

Click for information on National Standards with regard to food and mealtimes, and hygiene and infection control

There is general information about food and nutrition to be found in our advice centre.