Paul Constable
Paul Constable is the Food & Nutrition Services Manager at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney, where he leads a team of 180 serving more than 800,000 patient meals a year across the 700-bed public and private Darlinghurst campus. He also manages St Vincent’s Health Australia’s national Food on Demand call centre, taking meal orders for those seven hospitals.
A classically trained chef and accredited internal food safety auditor, Paul has spent more than 30 years across premium dining, corporate catering and healthcare. Paul is now focused on turning patient feedback and service data into practical changes his teams can deliver for better service outcomes. He believes choice is the most undervalued ingredient in hospital food.
In 2026 his team reviewed the food service model to look at what we could change from a patient’s perspective, the results are in… lunch default meals cut from 20% to 4% and the mid-meal satisfaction from 71% to 93%.
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