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Smoking area at Thurland Ward

Posted By Dash311

"Smoking area at Thurland Ward"

About: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust / Adult mental health (inpatient)

(as the patient),

I would like a fenced area in which smoke to smoke as all the patients wants to smoke and it should be opened all the time.

That way, Thurland ward will be same as other wards on the site.

Smoking helps me with stress. I think if patients cant smoke, they become frustrated and agitated. Thank you for looking into this.

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Response from Jane Danforth, Involvement & Experience Officer, Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 13 years ago
Jane Danforth
Involvement & Experience Officer, Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team,
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Hello, my name is Jane Danforth. My role involves helping our service users, volunteers and staff to understand that Notts Healthcare wants to hear stories about our services. We reply to every story and it really helps us to improve what we do, how we do it and to hear about what works well too.

Submitted on 24/11/2010 at 16:34

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Thank you for your opinion. I will pass on your posting to staff on the ward and ask them if they would like to reply to your comments.

Many thanks again.

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Response from Involvement & Experience Officer, Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 13 years ago
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Submitted on 29/11/2010 at 09:16
Published on Care Opinion at 00:00

Whilst we appreciate your views on smoking and we recognise people can feel stressed when they cannot smoke when they want, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust promotes a smoke free environment as the health benefits are significant.

With the development of the Well’s Road Centre, Thurland ward will have it’s own secure fenced area, as the other wards currently do.

We will be asking your views on how you feel you would like these areas to be utilised. Our recent patient 'Safe Space' event discussed these issues and we have gathered a lot of ideas, which will feed into the development of the site and the services we offer.

Thank you for your posting

Andy Latham

General Manager

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