Phil
This sounds like a typical boneheaded crackpot NHS Excutive idea. But I
understand bunches of flowers had a poplar following to ward off the black
plague a few years back - I knew this idea would come around again as a cost
saving device.
The atmosphere is polluted enough without adding more respiratory junk in the
form of fragrances to disguise hospital smells. The enemies of odour are fresh
air and light. The same treatment could be aplied to most corporate management.
Who wants hospitals to smell like the inside of a tarts handbag? The idea
stinks.
'Old Fashioned#2'
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Subject: Automatic air fresheners
Does anyone have any experience of automatic air fresheners? These are the
devices found in toilets and increasingly around hospitals which automatically
dose the air with a jet of air freshener at regular time periods.
Apparently the NHS are pushing this as a way for hospitals to be perceived as
cleaner, i.e. not smelling of hospital. Our trust has recently spent quite a bit
of money on them. I first found out when I saw a couple of patients from the
same area with pre-existing asthma whose symptoms suddenly got a lot worse.
These settled completely within a day or two of the air fresheners being
removed. Has anybody else had this problem?
I am still awaiting data sheets on these products but am told we have two
different sorts. One which works as described above and the other which produces
ozone and "recreates the atmosphere experienced after a thunderstorm". Call me
old fashioned if you like but is this a good idea??
I am told by my Facilities people that they are widely used all across the NHS
and therefore there can't be a problem, my experience so far indicates the
opposite.
Philip Atkinson
Consultant OHP NHS
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