"Smoking"

About: William Harvey Hospital (Ashford)

I am a smoker but I am appalled by the amount of people smoking and vaping near the front entrance and on the benches by the parking machine, I’ve just seen reviews from 2014 (ten years ago) complaining about smoking on site, and it looks as though nothing has been done about it, and staff and security do nothing to challenge people smoking on site, even though that is part of the policy. The reviews in 2014 also suggested smoking areas away from the buildings, but according to the hospital reply, this was shot down by health professional colleagues who preferred a no smoking policy - which is fine, but why have the policy and then do nothing about it? Like I said I am a smoker, but smoking on hospital grounds is unacceptable, and it appears nothing has been done about it (in ten years) so when are you going to grow a backbone and start telling people not to smoke out the front?

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Response from Patient Feedback Co-Ordinator, Patient Voice and Involvement, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust last week
We are preparing to make a change
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Submitted on 16/09/2024 at 10:16
Published on Care Opinion at 10:22


Thank you for passing on your feedback.

You are absolutely right regarding smoking in our Trust. This is something that actually is being extensively looked at right now.

My line manager has been pushing for the Trust to install smoking shelters and I agree this should have happened a long time ago.

No patients should have to walk through people smoking when they leave and enter our hospital grounds.

If you would like to talk to my team further surrounding this please contact us via our email address which is ekhuft.patientvoice@nhs.net

Kind regards

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