Health Promotion, UK style!

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One of the UK’s leading NHS hospitals has come under fire for turning a bike shelter into a smoking area.



Racks which hold around 60 bicycles are being removed from the grounds of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge to make room for smokers to have a cigarette undercover. But cycling campaigners says the hospital is sending out the wrong message by making the switch.[Really?!?!]


Robin Heydon, of Cambridge Cycling Campaign, said: 'Addenbrooke’s is already overflowing with bikes, so to remove bike parking, especially to put in a smoking shelter, seems completely and entirely against what the NHS should be about.' The bike shelter is near the hospital’s 'S' block, but it is being turned into a smoking shelter as part of a hospital revamp of its major trauma centre. A Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) spokesman said the new scheme would see 138 new cycle places provided on the site, which will mean room for an extra 79 bikes.

He said: 'At CUH we are committed to encouraging staff, patients and visitors to live a healthy lifestyle. 'That is why we have made a commitment to provide an additional 500 cycle spaces over the next two years. 'We are working towards a smoke-free campus. Smoking shelters are in place because they help to minimise the health and safety risks.[?]'

One of the five designated smoking areas is being relocated to a new area next to the S block to replace cycle racks that are currently there.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Much ado about nothing. They are getting more cycle parking and smokers get a place out from under the rain. Go report on some imigrant getting public housing and complains about not getting enough money from the gov to afford a pack of butts.