Health and Safety gone mad

I pity patients at the NHS. The overpaid managers have decreed that visiting hours are to be cut, because they have not been doing their jobs and keeping wards clean. All these muddy boots visitors wear. Anyone who has been in hospital knows how important visitors are; they relieve the monotony and keep the staff on their toes. In my mother’s case, if family members hadn’t questioned the doctors and nurses, she might not have recovered.
A few years ago they forbade visitors to bring in flowers; it was claimed they spread infections. Now it is visitors who are being blamed. The suspicion is that managers are just looking for an easy life.