Thursday
Mar172011
NHS Trust conducts poll on smoking in hospital grounds
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:37 An NHS Trust in Colchester wants to ban smoking in hospital grounds, forcing smokers to walk 300 yards to a busy main road if they want to light up.
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust used No Smoking Day to launch a poll on its proposals. You must respond online before March 31, but why wait (hint hint).
The local paper has the story, with a quote from me, here.
Reader Comments (8)
One NO vote cast from me. The survey does ask if you smoke, but you don't have leave your name or address.
Why smoking question? Makes me wonder if they intend to say that only smokers voted no.
The question should simply be “DO you agree with this proposal? Yes or no. Anything else is none of their business.
Ironically this happened in Essex too, don't they read the papers?
"A trainee accountant obsessed with serial killers has been found guilty of murdering a nurse as she took a cigarette break.
Cheryl Moss, 33, was stabbed and slashed 72 times as she stood in parkland at the back of St George's hospital, Hornchurch, Essex, in April, last year."
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/55059-murder-obsessed-killer-knifed-nurse#ixzz1GrYGiB1T
I have just checked the various reports and it appears she was definitely outside the hospital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6744769.stm
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=st+george%27s+hospital+hornchurch+site+map&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
Another 'NO' vote from me.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention Simon.
Nima.
And another NO from me.....
Well, they obviously expect the desired outcome from their survey since they express their intention to use it to take the proposal forward - what a surprise, especially since it isn't worth the paper it's written on (I lied about being a smoker so that my vote wouldn't be automatically ignored).
Also added a comment to the Gazette article which needs a bit of support. God, don't you just get SO tired of the same bloody, irrational, ludicrous comments!?
I'll make sure the surveys answered around this time are ignored!