As 2025 draws to a close, I want to take a moment to celebrate everything we’ve achieved this year and share some highlights.

National Conference 2025

‘Mastering the essentials: collaborating to achieve extraordinary results’ was the theme for this year’s National Conference. The event encompassed presentations, workshops and information sharing from our expert speakers and across the events and site visits held over three days from October 27 – 29.

IHHC rebrands as Hospitality in Healthcare

National Excellence Awards & Culinary Competition winners

We’re delighted to present the 2025 winners of these two highlights of this year’s National Conference.

Choice Collective fosters aged care collaboration

Hospitality in Healthcare is a proud participant in this initiative designed to deliver realworld solutions to assist in the provision of nutritious, high quality meals around the clock in conformance with Standard 6.

Celebrating aged care chefs

The glorious backdrop of Admiralty House in Sydney’s Kirribilli last month played host to an event celebrating aged care cooks and chefs.

Why we can safely recycle patient food from hospital trays

The current procedures hospitals have in place say any food or drink brought to a patient or resident must be discarded on return to the kitchen and disposed of in the garbage/waste stream. Food auditor Gary Kennedy challenges the reasoning behind this.

Closing the gaps in apprentice chefs’ food safety units

Food Safety and Training Consultant Andrew Thomson says proposed changes to food safety units of competency for apprentice chefs don’t go far enough.

Are all your food allergen controls in place?

A food allergy audit is the best way to see if  you have thought of all the food allergy risks across your facility and whether  you have adequate controls in place.

Rethinking healthcare food waste

Frozen meal technology may offer a path to reducing healthcare food pressures amid the challenges presented by IDDSI and Standard 6.