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Letters Sledging injuries

Sledges are snow joke

BMJ 2013; 346 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f700 (Published 05 February 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f700
  1. Alice E Clarke, foundation year 1 doctor1,
  2. Christopher Anderson, foundation year 1 doctor1,
  3. Michael Wall, STR 7 vascular surgeon1,
  4. David Robinson, consultant orthopaedic surgeon1,
  5. Steven Thrush, consultant breast surgeon1
  1. 1Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worcester WR5 1DD, UK
  1. aec623{at}gmail.com

The recent snow fall seriously affected the running of our general hospital service. Difficulties of staff, patients, and provisions getting to the hospital led to cancelled operations, high clinic non-attendance rates, and problems with staffing in the clinical and support settings. …

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