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Smoking outside the hospital

Posted By Marny64

"Smoking outside the hospital"

About: Antrim Area Hospital / Direct Assessment Unit

(as a service user),

I recently attended the Direct Assessment Unit and was appalled to see the amount of hospital staff in uniforms sitting on chairs outside the entrance smoking. I thought the hospital was a smoke free zone? It is totally unprofessional and a blatant disregard to hospital policy. How is this allowed to happen? 

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Response from Niall Gallagher, Assistant Clinical Services Manager, Specialist Medicine, NHSCT 2 years ago
Niall Gallagher
Assistant Clinical Services Manager, Specialist Medicine,
NHSCT

Submitted on 10/11/2021 at 13:50
Published on Care Opinion at 13:56

Dear Marny64,

Thank you for your feedback regarding your recent experience and I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for this.The hospital is indeed a smoke free zone for both patients and staff and we encourage our staff to comply with the non smoking policy and actively challenge those who break Trust policy

Many Thanks

Niall Gallagher

Assistant Clinical Services Manager

Acute Medicine

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