Industry-leading standards

Our aim is to provide the highest-quality, best-value cleaning, catering, support and retail services to the healthcare sector.

Medirest is the UK's second largest provider of catering and support services to the healthcare market.

We provide professional, quality cleaning, catering, retail and support services in over 50 acute hospitals and many medical treatment centres. Our teams are on hand 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to manage essential services on behalf of over 30 NHS Trusts. This support gives you the assurance and peace of mind to focus fully on your role - providing quality patient care.

Everything we do is underpinned by our mission… To provide the highest-quality, best-value cleaning, catering, support services and retail services to the healthcare sector.

Our influence in the healthcare sector is an opportunity we don't take lightly. That's why we've developed industry-leading standards and procedures.

Global support. Better opportunities.

Medirest is part of Compass Group, the world's largest specialist caterer and support services provider. With the global strength of the Compass Group network, we offer unrivalled expertise, innovation and resources to the healthcare sector. Our global network of operations in over 60 countries allows us to develop the best opportunities in terms of recruitment, innovation, systems and operations.

It's all about our people

The quality of our services depends on our people. No matter what their area of skill, all our employees are specialists in their particular field of expertise.

Award-winning talent management

We invest in programmes to attract and retain the best people. Relevant team members must undertake NVQs in cleaning, catering, customer service, supervision and infection control.

We act on feedback

In 2007, over 150,000 people around the world and 71% of Medirest employees completed a survey on the company. From the feedback, we laid the foundations for our learning and development, reward and motivation programmes.

Providing the right tools

Motivating and training our people isn't enough. It's essential that we develop and invest in the best tools for them to deliver ever-increasing quality standards.

Better food quality

By introducing Steamplicity cooked food to patient catering, we can guarantee better food quality while reducing space, labour and utility requirements.

First-class supply chain management

Years of first-class supply chain management have resulted in the availability of our products and services being second to none.

Global best practice

Our web-based knowledge management system incorporates global best practice operating procedures for the delivery of support services.

Business efficiency assessments

Compass Group reviews our productivity results against industry benchmarks and performance targets. These reviews challenge our business costs, delivering better value to you.