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.
"I think it's an excellent service, valued by the patients and staff. The patients receive excellent stimulation from the readers, offering hope and motivation for them. It gives them a sense of value"
Sister Shirley, George Brunskill Ward, Finchley Hospital.
The hospitals are visited three, four or five 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 14 London hospitals:
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- Clayponds Hospital, Ealing
- Edgware Hospital
- Homerton Hospital
- King's College Hospital
- Lewisham 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
- West Middlesex
We also read in 7 regional hospitals
- Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham
- Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton
- Wythenshawe Hospital, Greater Manchester
- Royal Oldham Hospital, Oldham
- Princess Royal, Hayward's Heath
- Southmead Hospital, Bristol
- Newcastle Upon Tyne General
We also read in over 50 stroke clubs.
