Health and safety at work

Greetings comrades. It has been a while since we spoke. Last year was the most successful year ever for our glorious health service. And now more good news from the Health Commissariat. Comrade Hewitt’s health and safety commissars will not rest until our health service is safe for comrade doctor, nurses, and patients.

Meanwhile, back at the coal face, Dr Crippen has just returned from a few days in his Windermere dacha to find there has been another initiative from those nice NHS Health and Safety at work people.

The following stickers have appeared in the Health Centre.




Where have they put them, you may wonder. Apparently, if you twist the top of a tap with a red roundel marked “H” in an anti-clockwise direction, hot water begins to flow. My colleagues and I are most grateful to the Health and Safety hot-tap nurse-specialist for this helpful advice.





There are, by my estimation, thirty-three hot taps in our health centre. I do not know how many there are in the whole of the NHS. I do not know how long it will take to apply the requisite stickers. I do not know how much the stickers cost. I do not know to what total the time-costs of the aforementioned hot-tap nurse-specialists will add up.

But this is health and safety. Better than wasting money on management consultants.