CELEBRITY chef Simon Rimmer has spiced up the menu at Liverpool’s Women’s hospital – and now patients don’t want to leave. The Wallasey-born culinary whiz was asked by the Trust to get involved when their food scored very low in a customer satisfaction survey.

The menu now includes cultural references and is aimed to be comfort food.

Rimmer said: “I wanted to focus on home comforts. The last thing that you want when you go to hospital is food that you have never heard of or is too spicy.

“The dishes I have added to the menu are old favourites and include the likes of scouse and korma.

“The recipes will serve their nutritional needs and make meal times more enjoyable, while being suitable to reproduce in the hospital kitchens for the 200 patients per day.

“The chefs that I have worked with here have been fantastic.

“I think morale was quite low before this project, but now they are thriving.

“I am really proud of them and their hard work.

“I must say that, before I worked with Ian and Steve, I was a chef snob. I wasn’t sure what they were going to be able to do as they work in a hospital kitchen.