With the longest day of the year fast approaching, it’s reassuring to know that, on the basis of our statistics at least, fewer people are in hospital in summer than in winter.

 

The reason we’re able to say this is that we run a website sending gifts to people in hospital on behalf of friends and family who can’t visit the patient in person.  Sales via the website in late Spring and Summer are regularly 20% or so lower than in late Autumn and Winter, and January is the month when we send the most gifts.

 

No great surprises here.  Most of us, I am sure, would choose not to spend these long light evenings in hospital.