A TRAINEE doctor is so fed up with smokers at the entrances to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital he has reported it to the authorities.
Jean-Francois Gelinas, from Oxford, said he tried to alert the hospital to the issue but felt intimidated by smokers and other members of staff.
He has now taken the matter to NHS England, the Patient Advice and Liaison Service and the Care Quality Commission, and has lodged an official complaint with the Oxford University Hospitals Trust (OUHT).
Mr Gelinas, 27, a student in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences of the University of Oxford, said: “In Canada and other countries they have an exclusion zone of nine metres outside hospital buildings and I don’t know why they can’t have it here.
“When the John Radcliffe Hospital’s security is made aware of the situation, this is disregarded.”
The OUHT said it was investigating the matter, and that it would put measures in place to stop smoking on the grounds. Smoking was banned outright inside the hospitals in 2007.
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