'Unfortunately Today There Are Patients and Staff Smoking Near the Entrances and That Is Not Good' ; the Welsh Public Now Accepts That Smoking Is Banned in Certain Public Areas - but Hospital Grounds Remain Fair Game. Health Correspondent Greg Tindle Reports On Whether New Legislation Is Now Needed to Ban Smoking On All Nhs Property

Western Mail › March 30, 2009

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ALEADING consultant has called for a total ban on smoking in all hospital grounds.

Dr Ian Campbell, a chest consultant at Llandough Hospital, said attempts by NHS trusts to prohibit smoking within their grounds need to be enforced by laws to make smoking illegal on any NHS estates.

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'Unfortunately Today There Are Patients and Staff Smoking Near the Entrances and That Is Not Good' ; the Welsh Public Now Accepts That Smoking Is Banned in Certain Public Areas - but Hospital Grounds Remain Fair Game. Health Correspondent Greg Tindle Reports On Whether New Legislation Is Now Needed to Ban Smoking On All Nhs Property

His comments come after security staff at hospitals in North Wales said they are facing daily verbal threats and abuse from the public when they try to enforce a smoking ban in hospital grounds.

Dr Campbell, a lung cancer expert and former president of the British Thoracic Society, helped to mastermind a no-smoking culture at Llandough Hospital, in Penarth, more than 20 years ago.

Such action, coupled with the appointment of the first smoking cessation counsellor in the UK, virtually rid the hospital an...

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