A hospital kitchen runs every day of the year, feeding patients, staff and visitors to strict dietary and hygiene standards. When it has to close for a refurbishment, fails without warning, or can no longer keep up with demand, the catering cannot stop. PKL supports hospitals and NHS trusts in two ways: temporary kitchens and catering equipment that keep meals running through planned and unplanned disruption, and permanent modular kitchens where an existing facility is no longer fit for use or a site is expanding and needs greater capacity. Both are delivered as a fully managed service, designed around the hospital's menus, volumes and infection-control requirements.
Our Solutions
Designed for healthcare settings, our temporary and permanent kitchens keep patient and staff catering running through refurbishments, emergencies and periods of rising demand, to the hygiene and dietary standards a hospital requires.
One Partner from Design to Handover
Keeping Hospital Meals Running During a Kitchen Refurbishment and Emergency
The most common reason trusts come to PKL is when a vital kitchen refurbishment must take place without disrupting the hospital’s ability to feed patients, staff and visitors. A temporary kitchen runs seamlessly alongside the refurbishment works, ensuring catering teams can continue delivering a full meal service without compromise until the refurbished kitchen is fully operational.
Hospitals also rely on PKL in emergency situations, where fires, floods or infrastructure failures require an immediate catering solution, as well as during periods of growth when existing kitchens no longer have the capacity to meet demand.
For each of these, we supply temporary kitchen hire, cold rooms, refrigeration and catering equipment, specified to the hospital’s menus and daily meal volumes. For emergencies we run a 24-hour line and can often respond the same day.
Live Hospital
A hospital operates around the clock, where hygiene, infection control and service continuity are non-negotiable. PKL carefully plans every delivery, installation and crane lift around the demands of a live clinical environment, maintaining safe access, protecting patient areas and keeping critical routes operational throughout.
Every kitchen is commercial-grade, fully prepared and rigorously tested at our specialist production facility before installation, and finished to the exacting standards required in healthcare settings. This enables catering teams to continue delivering uninterrupted meal services for patients, staff and visitors, including texture-modified and specialist clinical diets, throughout the project.
Why Hospitals Choose PKL
We bring scale and a fully managed service: a fleet of more than 600 kitchen units, over 15,000 temporary kitchen facilities delivered in more than 35 years, and dedicated specialist teams managing every stage of the project, from site survey and CAD design through to delivery, installation, ongoing support and removal.
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A Complete Kitchen Solution
Working Around a Live Hospital
A hospital operates around the clock, where hygiene, infection control and service continuity are non-negotiable. PKL carefully plans every delivery, installation and crane lift around the demands of a live clinical environment, maintaining safe access, protecting patient areas and keeping critical routes operational throughout.
Every kitchen is commercial-grade, fully prepared and rigorously tested at our specialist production facility before installation, and finished to the exacting standards required in healthcare settings. This enables catering teams to continue delivering uninterrupted meal services for patients, staff and visitors, including texture-modified and specialist clinical diets, throughout the project.
Hospitals We Have Supported
We have kept catering running and delivered new facilities across the healthcare sector, including a temporary kitchen at North Middlesex University Hospital and a permanent modular kitchen at the Friarage Hospital. We hold the accreditations healthcare procurement expects: ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, along with CHAS, SAFEcontractor, Gas Safe and F-Gas, and we route public-sector buyers through compliant framework agreements including ESPO and YPO.
FAQs
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Can you keep patient and staff meals running during a refurbishment?
Yes. A temporary kitchen runs alongside the works so the catering team prepares the full range of meals to schedule throughout, then we remove it once the permanent kitchen is back in use.
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Do your kitchens meet hospital hygiene and infection-control standards?
Yes. Every kitchen is commercial grade, prepared and tested before delivery and finished to the hygiene standards a healthcare setting demands, and we plan the installation to protect patient areas.
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Can the kitchen handle clinical and texture-modified diets?
Yes. We specify the kitchen, equipment and refrigeration to the hospital’s menus and clinical dietary requirements, so the full range of diets can be prepared.
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Can you help in an emergency?
Yes. We run a 24-hour line, 365 days a year, and can often deliver an emergency kitchen the same day, depending on what is needed.
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Can you provide extra capacity as the hospital expands?
Yes. Units link together for temporary needs, and we supply permanent modular kitchens where a site is expanding and needs greater capacity for the long term.
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Is there a minimum hire period?
No. A temporary kitchen can be hired for exactly as long as the refurbishment or repair requires.
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