Wards at Watford General Hospital have been officially rated the worst in the whole of the NHS for food safety.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has given the Vicarage Road facility a hygiene rating of one out of a possible five, meaning that ‘major improvement’ is necessary.
The Hospital is the only hospital of many hundreds in the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to get the ‘single star’ rating. It has not improved its rating since 2019.
A damning report by Watford Borough Council health inspectors on behalf of the FSA uncovered a litany of hygiene failures. A kitchen in a children’s ward had a dirty floor and bare plaster on the walls. Patients with allergies have been put at ‘serious risk’ by poor safety practices, with stroke patients among those exposed to the danger.
Read the Food safety media release . Read the Watford General Food Safety Report