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Comments from doctors and healthcare professionals

Thank you for your organisation. Such a lovely example of how small ideas cherished by committed people add so much to the world. Doctor - North London

Your poems are the one thing in the NHS no one complains about.... Doctor - Bristol

Thank you and your colleagues for the encouragement that Poems in the Waiting Room brings to our practice. Doctor - Belper

As the co-ordinator for a new arts + healthcare program in a hospital, I was absolutely smitten by the Poems in the Waiting Room project!  Hospital Arts Co-ordinator St Louis USA

What a good idea! Practice Manager - West Kensington

I have found using these poems so useful in my work as an art therapist. I am now in a new post in mental health services in Carlisle.  Art Therapist Cumbria

What a noble project! Doctor London.

I am writing with regard to your innovative project Poems in the Waiting Room. Your endeavour is further proof that the UK Health System is far superior to anything we have in the States! Clinical Psychologist - Pittsburgh USA

Just to let you know, your poems have been very popular. Nurse Wellingborough

I love it that we can offer something enlivening during dark times. Cancer Care Centre Manager Lancashire

What a fantastic idea, I am a Ward Sister on a Day Surgery Unit that has a waiting room for patients and their relatives. Sister Andover

Feedback from patients has been extremely positive... General Practitioner Alcester


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