Doctors surgery not able to accept weekly magazines due to heath and safety

[Aeroflotgirl]

I went into my local doctors surgery to give them some weekly magazines (talking about Take a Break and Bella), and the receptionist told me that they cannot accept them due to health and safety, wtaf!!!!

She told me that the local hospital take them. So if the local hospital can have them, which they do, why can't they. I don't drive so the hospital is a distance away so not going to do that. stop the world I want to get off. Madness.

I agree with @WhyDontYouComeOnOver that it could be triggering for some people. Wasn't there a massive thread on here before that they should be moved out of the eyeline of children in a supermarket because of the headlines on them?

Oh god, wrap the world up in cotton wool, wasen't an issue before.

They are women's weeklies, not porn fgs!!!

I think there would be far less snobbery, if it was National Geographic or Time magazine.

I don’t understand how the reasoning behind this is so very hard to grasp. Must be one of those ‘doesn’t apply to me, can’t apply to anyone else’ things huh.

They are women's weeklies, not porn fgs!!!

A lot of the headlines are about rape and child abuse.

No I can't grasp it Mama as it is just so silly and very ott.

Ok ban those stupid touch screens in the Drs then, that everyone has to touch to register themselves.

Do you have nearby sheltered accommodation or a nursing home that might appreciate them for the communal lounge?

I might just give them to my mum when she comes this week, she likes those types of things. I have stopped buying them now, really because they are just so depressing, and the same thing every week.

Well as long as you’re alright Jack. We can tell those HCPs that set the rules with years worth of experience, that they’re OTT and should stop protecting the vulnerable.

Sure then you can be back on here complaining you had to wait at the reception desk. Shocker!

My osteopath has a selection of old magazines. I suppose slipped discs aren’t contageous!

There's no obligation on anyone to accept anything they don't want. Why do some people think that they are bestowing some great bounty by dumping stuff they don't want onto someone else.

It’s not madness. It’s an infection control issue

No....it IS madness.
Everything is a fucking infection risk...the world HAS gone mad.

"How did you get the sepsis? Was it appendicitis, meningitis, urinary, what?"

" No, it was Take a break magazine..."

No it was at the fucking hospital.

i don’t know about sepsis Captain but I would wager that shit could give you necrosis of the brain and intellect.

Nice that you think the mentally ill, vulnerable and children are silly and OTT, OP. Real nice.

Wow common sense has passed some people here I see.

The same judgy people are the ones who correct people's spelling and grammar on here, as well as looking down on non book readers.

Right WhyDon'tYou totally took what I said out of context over a few silly magazines, overreaction much!

This is infection control gone mad.

They can accept the magazines, just like staff with colds can go on wards but then wear the wrong hairband & you can't.

Really is down to who you speak to on the day. Barmy.

It’s never occurred to me until this minute when people on this thread have pointed it out but actually it does make sense that not having magazines lying around would help prevent spreading infections. I’m fairly relaxed about germs but not everyone can afford to be.

It's not an overreaction really when you have to deal with someone who is seeing the Doctor due to being raped, then has to look at magazine covers in the waiting room about rape, murder and child abuse. It's just common sense really, isn't it?