‘Hospitals have been told to remove smoking shelters and end the “terrible spectacle of people on drips in hospital gowns smoking outside” by introducing an outright ban on cigarettes. Nurses should no longer to help patients out of the ward to have a cigarette outside, while staff and visitors should not to smoke anywhere on the grounds of an NHS hospital or clinic, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th November 2013
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