No Smoking Policy
Patients, visitors, and staff are not allowed to smoke anywhere on our grounds.
If you smoke and are already using treatment, for example nicotine replacement therapy, please bring this to hospital with you. If you would like help giving up smoking, please speak to our stop smoking service ABL, your doctor, nurse, therapist, or pharmacist. We can provide nicotine replacement therapy, such as patches, to help you with any withdrawal effects.
Staff caring for you can then organise continuing support and treatment for you from your local NHS stop smoking service ABL when you leave the hospital. Stopping smoking for just 4 weeks reduces your chance of getting a chest infection or wound infection and increases your chances of being able to get home sooner, healthy, and well. Vaping is permitted on site but not in any of our buildings. Patients, visitors and staff are encouraged to vape away from hospital entrances and main thoroughfares and to be respectful to others in the vicinity.
We know it isn’t an easy thing to do but there is help available, please visit this link.
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