Actors work in teams. Each team is responsible for an individual hospital. The teams are large enough to ensure that despite actors' other work commitments reading sessions are never missed and patients never let down.

The hospitals are visited three times a week. They choose the times and days that they would like these visits to occur. A hospital session lasts two hours. InterAct Reading Service reads at the following London hospitals:

• Barnet General
• Charing Cross Hospital
• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
• Clayponds, Ealing
• Finchley Memorial
• King's College Hospital
• Maudsley Hospital
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Bloomsbury, London
• Mile End Hospital, London
• St Mary's Paddington
• St Pancras Hospital
• St Thomas' Lambeth
• The Royal Free and St Mary's Hampstead
• West Middlesex
• Whittington Hospital

We also read in 6 regional hospitals

• Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham
• Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton
• Wythenshawe Hospital, Greater Manchester
• Royal Oldham Hospital, Oldham
• Bucknall Rehabilitation Centre, Stoke-on-Trent
• Princess Royal, Hayward's Heath

InterAct Reading Service also works in 32 stroke clubs in the London and South East Area. The Stroke Club readings are 'performance based'. The reader performs a 'programme' and reads to the whole group.

These sessions are also interactive. Please contact the office for a list of stroke clubs we currently read in.

InterAct reads at one hospice, the Pembridge Palliative Care Centre. Here, the patients are read to on both the ward and in the day centre.