Our guest editor today Tracey Emin thinks the quality of food served to patients in many hospitals is a real cause for concern and was keen to hear from the chef and restaurateur Heston Blumenthal, who has been involved in a project seeking to make hospital food more palatable.

The Today programme's Sarah Montague spoke to him about it.

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