Today we spent 3 hours in a paediatric waiting room in our local hospital.
Unless someone disinfects those windy wires and beads several times a day, the logic of having one or two toys in a doctor's or hospital's reception or paediatric rooms completely defies me.
Tens of (high probability ill or carrying something from a sibling who is doctor-worthy) children passing through every day, fingering everything.
Obviously soft play is like this too, but it's not a doctor's or hospital where people go when they're ill.
Also, why, when you have a child who is ill already, would you want to risk compounding the problem by having them potentially catch something else?
I'm thinking mainly vomiting bugs here, which are of course highly contagious, you can't ever have immunity for long, and are at a 5 year high this year. There were warnings about it all over our local hospital, and reminders about hand washing, yet nobody seemed to bloody disinfect the toys the whole 3 hours we were there, and when about 20 different children there for different reasons played with them - including one who pooed on the floor then played with the toy. Obviously the poo was cleared up, but the toy was never cleaned.