article_snippet: Earlier this week, MPs called for a ban on fast-food outlets such as McDonald’s and Burger King from hospitals.
article_snippet: Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, backed MPs’ call and criticised hospitals for permitting the sale of fast food.
article_snippet: But Mr Loughton said banning The chain would not solve anything.
article_snippet: Mr Loughton said: 'People say "ban the fast-food places" but I don't think that will ever work.
article_snippet: In Devon, hospital chiefs have told staff not to allow deliveries from a new Pizza Hut - despite it being built in hospital chiefs own multi-storey car park.
article_snippet: Staff were instructed to tell patients patients could not order from the fast food restaurant, with bosses steering patients towards 'healthier' sandwiches in Derriford Hospital in Plymouth's smoothie bar instead.
highlights_snippet: Figures come days after MPs said fast food in hospital should be banned .