Students make gardening more accessible to patients

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00:00 So this is what the brilliant young people have made for us and it means that our patients can

00:06 come in a wheelchair straight through the door there and then straight down here.

00:11 So Jane came in before obviously before Christmas with some plans, ideas that we needed something

00:17 accessible so that patients could use it and then our SICK form team decided to come up with a

00:22 template, kind of mark it out which didn't go to waste because our Greenfield site as well

00:27 has also benefited from that kind of practice run and then they've put this together for themselves

00:31 as well which they all seem quite chuffed about which is nice to see that they're proud of their

00:35 own work. As you can see here we have made the planters here so that took us a couple of weeks

00:40 like maybe two months or something like that but it wasn't too stressful it was just cut a bit of

00:45 wood, squirt it together really, make it look pretty but overall it was something really nice

00:49 to do, it made a change, it's been really really well. Really good that we're actually doing

00:54 something for the people that you know are not well enough to do something if you get what I mean

01:00 but yeah it feels quite all right to do something like that so they've actually got something to do

01:04 whilst they're here so they're not just sat in a room bored and whatever but yeah as long as

01:09 they're happy we're happy. We were contacted by the college who were looking to help with

01:15 the hospital and we were happy to donate any materials that we could to support them. My

01:22 father was in the Garner ward just down across the corner so I've experienced the hospital and

01:29 the wonderful things that it does so very close to my heart. It's absolutely fantastic and I think

01:34 it's wonderful that as a community we've come together to create these kind of planters and

01:39 areas for our patients to enjoy. I think anyone would agree doing something for a natural cause

01:45 is the best thing to do and to know that this could help people's mental health, people just

01:51 in general wanting to get out do some planting and it's for everyone rather than just being for

01:56 someone who can plant on the floor or in a regular plant pot it's also making it accessible for

02:02 everyone else so it brings in all people at all times so it's very rewarding and a very good

02:09 thing to really do especially being young and doing things for people and helping people

02:14 sets me up for the future and gives me a good idea of what I want to do.