title: The children's waiting room at Charing Cross Hospital.
abstract: The children's waiting room at Charing Cross Hospital was opened on April 2 1973 as part of the Department of Paediatrics. It is run by the authors who have had a Nursery Nurse training and are employed by the hospital as Play Therapists. It is attended by hundreds of different families a year. Some come to the hospital just once or twice, but others have been coming for many years.
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D002648:Child; D006757:Hospital Units; D006758:Hospital Volunteers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D010372:Pediatrics; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010989:Play Therapy; D010988:Play and Playthings