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Article: NHS trust shopping list draws flak
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 1996
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The wedding list, long the domain of fashionable couples
seeking useful gifts as opposed to 20 toasters, has been adopted by
an National Health Service trust hospital. The League of Friends of
Barnet Hospital in north London has issued a "shopping list" for
the public in its "Make a Million" campaign.
Where the wedding list might concentrate on decent china or
cutlery, the Barnet shopping list is asking the public to raise
cash and buy everything from basic stethoscopes to expensive
ultrasound scanning machines identified on the medical gift list.
Geoff Martin, campaign director of the London Health Emergency
lobbying group, criticised the shopping list appeal yesterday,
stating: "At a time ...