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Dying Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell blasts ‘grim’ hospital meals as she highlights lack of NHS funding


EMMERDALE actress Leah Bracknell has blasted the hospital meals she’s had since being treated for cancer as she highlights the lack of NHS funding for food.

The 55-year-old was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2016 but has defied the odds to survive – and yesterday revealed she has decided to ignore doctors and is hoping for a miracle instead.

 Leah Bracknell has shared her hospital journey by revealing the food she has had

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Leah Bracknell has shared her hospital journey by revealing the food she has hadCredit: Instagram

Today the star – best known for playing Zoe Tate on the ITV soap – has shared part of her hospital journey with fans by showing them what she has been eating.

Alongside a series of pictures, she wrote: “Over the next few days I shall be sharing pics of the NHS meals wat (sic) I have had!

“Being as it’s in the news and on the menu so to speak – and high time too. With £1.32 spent on each NHS meal compared to £2.02 spent in the prison service.

“I have documented them over the last few years to illicit sympathy from friends and family during my medical incarcerations. My mum thought this was a prawn korma! Wishful thinking mum. #nhsmeals #foodismedicinetoo. #nutritionfreemeals #nhs.”

 Leah shared a picture of some macaroni cheese that her mum mistook for prawn korma

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Leah shared a picture of some macaroni cheese that her mum mistook for prawn korma
 Leah's followers were pretty shocked by the quality of the food she's been given in hospital

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Leah’s followers were pretty shocked by the quality of the food she’s been given in hospital
 Leah described much of the food she'd been given as 'nutrition free'

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Leah described much of the food she’d been given as ‘nutrition free’

Her followers were shocked by the food she showed – including a shepherds pie and macaroni cheese.

One person wrote: “Looks pretty grim”, while another added: “Think I would be ordering food in ! I wouldn’t be able to eat that!”

In the past campaigners have blasted the NHS after it emerged jailed criminals are being fed better than sick hospital patients.

Hospitals spend just £1.37 per meal for each patient – meanwhile the Prison Services spend £2.02 on feeding convicts.

The shocking figures, released in 2017, sparked calls from MPs for a review of food and nutrition in the NHS.

 She is famed for playing Zoe Tate on Emmerdale

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She is famed for playing Zoe Tate on EmmerdaleCredit: Rex Features
 The actress was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016

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The actress was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016Credit: Rex Features

Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith also slammed the “inedible” NHS food – claiming it prevents patients from recovering from illnesses.

Prue, 79, who replaced Mary Berry on Bake Off, hit out at the “foul-smelling sludge” served in hospitals.

In a column for The Oldie magazine, she blasted £1.49 per meal budgets but added: “That’s not an excuse for inedible meals.”

She added: “Health ministers, doctors and administrators need to be convinced that good food is medicine.”

Leah Bracknell reveals how she is dealing with terminal lung cancer


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