Well, congratulations on completing your degree, which is especially desearved if you didn't gain everything you had hoped from the course.

It does disapoint me that hospital play is still not being covered as part of your degree. Since treatment and investigations in hospital are such a large part of Healthcare for Children & their Families. In most hospitals now it is very common for health care professionals to refuse to start any treatment without the play specialist present.

The National Service Framework, of which I quoted a small piece relating to "play" is part of a ten year plan ie all recomendations within it must be implemented within ten years of the release of the document, which was 2003.

I do totally understand why you would not want to mention the name of the University to me, but would you consider sending a letter to the Course Leader from me if I email the letter on to you. That way I would not need to know the name, and I could still have a chance at changing practice, and you could also read the letter first and say if you were happy with the content of the letter. I just feel quite strongly that it is part of my role to change practice especially as I sit on the National Executive Committee for NAHPS. :crossfing

Thanks so much

hattyhar