How a doctor boosted morale with instant coffee
A redesign left anaesthetists in a UK hospital with no kettle, nowhere to sit and no coffee
A UK doctor has described how an act as simple as reinstituting a coffee room boosted morale among anaesthetists while raising funds for charity.
When anaesthetist Dr Richard Griffiths, of Peterborough City Hospital, in England’s Midlands, worked as a registrar at the hospital, there was a coffee room — of sorts.
It was a department office that doubled as somewhere for colleagues to meet and drink coffee that was filtered, strong but kept regularly topped up, he described in a BMJ blog.
When the hospital was redesigned in 2010 using private funds, doctors discovered that the new anaesthesia department had offices but no provision for coffee and chat.
