Hi

Thank you for your warm welcome, it seems to be a great site I'm sure I will enjoy using it.

Please do ask as many of your long list of questions, as you would like to, it really does make it much easier for play specialists to help if parents and other professionals involved with children knew how best to use us, so I really do want to answer all of your questions.

I don't know if our PALS officers (I guess you mean the Patient Advice Liaison Service) do know what I do. We have one based on my ward, the children's ward and she should know what I do. Fairly recently I got a new job to lead and develop the play service at a hospitalk that has not had play specialists before, so I have been pretty busy trying to educate everyone a my hospital about my role. I hope I have made quite a bit of progress with that area of my role, but who knows if people take it on board??

I have put a couple of websites that relate to Hospital Play on the site which I hope will be useful to people, but please do ask me any questions you like.

hattyhar