Saturday 6 August 2011

Health & Safety Strike Again!

this time over a tin of Vaseline,

for those who do not know Vaseline is an over the counter cream, a doctors prescription is not needed to buy it, Mrs Wilkins took advice over her daughter’s dry lips from her pharmacist and purchased the tin of Vaseline, but when Ellie-Maye went to use it at school, it was confiscated – because it is not a prescribed medicine, the school's headmaster took the view that there are three ways out of Health & Safety dilemma, firstly Ellie-Maye's mother could take time off work and administer the cream, or Ellie-May could go out of school to put the cream on, there was a third choice - the intelligent one, get the medication prescribed by a doctor, which is what Ellie-Mays mother decided to do, the cost? £1.00 for the Vaseline, as a doctors note could not be made out under the NHS it had to be a private prescription, the cost of the doctors note? £15!

'this is health and safety gone mad,’ said Mrs Wilkins, 28, a project manager, yesterday, ‘where has common sense gone? this harmless ointment was taken away in front of all her friends, she was made to feel naughty and as a result was close to tears – all over a tiny pot of Vaseline, anyone of any age can buy Vaseline in the supermarket, as she had my permission to use it and you don’t even need to buy it from a chemist, it seemed such an over-the-top reaction,'

last night, Graham Prince, headmaster of Wistaston Church Lane Primary School near her home in Sandbach, Cheshire, refused to comment.

No comments: