Fury over hospital smokers
Dudley's main hospital fails to prevent patients having a puff outside its main entrance, a visitor has complained.
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Sarah Dudley-Manning says she is "appalled" patients in gowns and wheelchairs repeatedly crowd round the Russells Hall Hospital entrance for a cigarette.
"It seems to make a mockery of the healthy living campaigns the NHS promote when they allow smokers to pollute my air as I enter the hospital."
Paul Farenden, chief executive of the hospital trust, said: "Smoking is discouraged outside the main entrance the the trust would ask smokers to be considerate and use the designated shelters provided instead."
