Tea and biscuits can provide brilliant therapy

We were delighted to hear from Jenny de Robeck, an Occupational Therapist who, for many years worked at a hospital in County Durham.

Her team would end assessment or treatment sessions with a cup of tea and a biscuit. They felt strongly that the benefit to their patietnts of this simple gesture were enormous. When the hospital stopped providing the tea and biscuits, the staff provided them out of their own pockets. They believed that the value these patients gained from this simple gesture often helped to shorten the overall time some of them needed hospital care, thereby saving the NHS money in the long term.