Thames Valley Cytology Society

  Volume 8 Issue 1
April 2006

100 uses for an unwanted Aylesbury spatula

Vivien Marshall-QE11 Hospital, Welwyn Garden City

As LBC slowly but surely replaces the traditional cervical smear test throughout England and Wales the inevitable outcome must be thousands of unwanted Aylesbury spatulas gathering dust in surgeries, hospitals and suppliers warehouses around the country.
Perhaps you can think of some alternative uses for these redundant items of equipment.

Here are a few suggestions to get you started, any contributions to vivien.marshall@nhs.net.


Plant labels
Back scratchier
Spoon for a large tub of ice cream
Stir frys (for very small quantities)
Paint stirrer
Pick-up-Stix
Building models
Kindling
Bookmark
Removing the coating on scratch cards