Prince Charles: good food in hospitals should be a priority He highlighted the recently introduced Hospital Food Exemplar CQUIN (Commissioning for Quality and Innovation), which allows commissioners to reward hospital trusts for delivering high quality food. In a speech Charles said it was important to "see food as a medicine in itself," according to the Daily Mail. He added: "You can imagine just how delighted I was that last month NHS England launched an initiative CQUIN, which for the first time actually encouraged commissioners to make hospital food a clinical priority." He described Mike Duckett, former catering manager at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, as an "inspiration." Mr Duckett reopened a number of shutdown hospital kitchens and set them up with an organic chef and links to local farmers in Kent who were able to supply them with fresh seasonal produce. Charles said this kind of enterprise created a "virtuous circle" of sustainability, helping the local economy and ensuring better patient health.