Patients and visitors to Airedale Hospital have been asked to help keep wards clean and tidy by throwing away bouquets of flowers.
Melanie Hornett, director of nursing at the Steeton hospital, said that to keep bedsides clean and tidy, staff were asking visitors and patients to either take their flowers home with them when they left or to throw them away on the ward in the bins provided.
She denied the request followed rumours that all flowers were to be banned from wards for infection control purposes.
She said: "Every day hundreds of bouquets of flowers are delivered or brought into the hospital for our patients.
"Flowers are very important and can help enormously when someone is feeling unwell or as a celebration when a new baby arrives."
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