Article: Hospital staff Christmas lunches leave visitors cold.

THERE might be no room at the inn when it comes to seasonal nativity plays, but health bosses have denied the same was true of the dining room at Borders General Hospital last week, writes Mark Entwistle.

And NHS Borders has been at pains to stress they were not trying to play Scrooge by discouraging visitors to the hospital to stay away from the dining room for four days last week to let staff enjoy Christmas lunches.

The official statement from NHS Borders came in response to claims from one irate hospital visitor who told TheSouthern that patients and visitors had been barred from the dining room with only a curt notice on the door in way of ...

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