Poems in the Waiting Room (PitWR) is a registered arts in health charity (No 1099033) which supplies short collections of poems for patients to read while waiting to see their doctor. In a patient centred NHS, poetry arts in health too needs to be patient centred. The readers are patients - the worried well and the worried sick. The poems draw from the springs of well-being. In time of trouble, a measure of comfort is welcome The poems cover both the canon of English verse and contemporary works - poetry from Quill to Qwerty.There is no charge to the patient or to the NHS host. The poems are presented as a three-folded A4 pamphlet, printed both sides on card. The poetry cards are distributed quarterly. Each poetry card provides some seven or eight poems with about two hundred lines or so of poetry.