A hospital has been slammed by a sick patient who shared these pictures of the "awful" food served to him.
Graeme Hatton, who spent 17 weeks in Colchester Hospital, Essex due to a serious lung condition, said some of the food was so bad he "wouldn't even feed it to his dogs".
The 66-year-old said the hospital served him what he could only describe as "some form of chicken with mashed potato" and "scrambled egg and cauliflower".
He said: "Some of the meals are so bad, no matter how hungry you are, you cannot bring yourself to eat them.
"Obviously you have to have a certain amount of sympathy for the NHS, they only have so much funding, but food should be a priority in the hospital.
"It is a well-known fact patients are leaving hospital malnourished and it has been going on for years. It is terrible and looks awful.
"Prisoners get fed better than patients now. This has got to stop."
"Every patient in my ward complained bitterly about it and a member of staff then made us all toast."
Graeme said he wrote a letter to his MP James Cleverly as well as hospital chief executive Nick Hulme and managed to get the hospital bosses to change the menu.
The hospital have admitted the food was not up to scratch and said it has made changes to rectify the issue going forward.
Fiona Sparrow, head of facilities at the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We completely appreciate Mr Hatton's viewpoints and have changed both the menu and the system we used since he kindly raised this issue."
In a column for The Oldie magazine, Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith said "inedible" NHS food was preventing patients from recovering from illnesses.
