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Scummy toys in GP's waiting room

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elliepupp · 06/09/2006 15:57

Waited with DD to see GP this morning and was horrified at the state of the toys she kept bringing me! Filthy stuff! Aren't there some rules about keeping toys clean?

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beckybrastraps · 06/09/2006 15:59

Probably. I think that's why the toys disappeared from our doctor's waiting room. Which is a bit sad.

suzywong · 06/09/2006 16:00

Ahhh...there are WONDERFUL toys in the GPs surgery in HIghgate, or at least there used to be, even a rocking horse with a reall horsehair main
(And once Terry Gilliam brandishing the greenest sample of pee I'd ever seen but that's another story)

suzywong · 06/09/2006 16:00

Ahhh...there are WONDERFUL toys in the GPs surgery in HIghgate, or at least there used to be, even a rocking horse with a reall horsehair main
(And once Terry Gilliam brandishing the greenest sample of pee I'd ever seen but that's another story)

hovely · 06/09/2006 16:53

have you got some you can pass on to them?

MrsFio · 06/09/2006 16:54
iota · 06/09/2006 16:55

toys were banished from our Health Centre some time ago - I think it was something to do with health and safety

alligator · 06/09/2006 16:56

doesnt the dirt help their immune systems or something.

Maybe you could donate some nice new ones? Sure the staff would be delighted.

colditz · 06/09/2006 16:58

Well, you could complain, then they would take all the toys away and none of the children would have anything to play with. Carry Dettol spray if you are worried, or perhaps you could volenteer to clean them?

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elliepupp · 06/09/2006 19:16

Iota, think you're right. Friend said it was something to do with health & safety and also said she saw child putting lovely dolly in her mouth after child with snotty nose had put in in hers....lubberly jubberly!!!

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melpomene · 06/09/2006 23:38

Our doctors' surgery used to have an enormous but slightly tatty stuffed panda (about 4 foot tall) in the waiting room. DD1 always played with it when we went there. Then one day, we were walking past the surgery and I saw the panda sticking out of a giant wheely bin outside! Luckily dd1 was looking the other way and didn't notice it.

The next time we went into the surgery, dd1 asked "Where's the panda?" I told her it had gone to another doctor's surgery

bubble99 · 06/09/2006 23:45

Most parent/toddler's groups have a well-worn selection of snot/dribble soaked toys. I appreciate that children visitng a GP's surgery may be ill and infectious, but there is always a toddler with a green nose at any venue.

Maybe we should all do as Michael Jackson apparently did, and replace toys daily with brand new identical copies?

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