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Health trust relaxes smoking rules saying blanket ban was too difficult to enforce 

HOSPITAL chiefs in Sheffield have defended a decision to provide smoking shelters around their sites, saying a blanket ban had proved too difficult for staff to enforce.

Contractors have been putting up the shelters in several locations on sites run by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Signs are currently displayed which say smoking is banned and inform people they are breaking the law unless they leave hospital grounds before lighting up.

But yesterday deputy chief nurse Richard Parker said the rules would be relaxed to encourage people to smoke in the shelters and move them away from other locations.

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