Nurses uniforms

Wash-your-own has been widespread since the last century. Nurses etc can claim an expenses allowance for it. Stiffly starched cotton aprons etc long gone :)

Uniforms, yes. Theatre scrubs, usually not.

Tim

I took "scrubs" (in quotes) to cover more than kit actually worn in theatre etc

Partner has already made a batch for our local hospital. (As many as she can manage.) Luckily had a fair bit of suitable cotton material. The people who got hers are very lucky - she is an excellent machine sewer and they looked rather nice!

I was a little surprised they didn't already have suitabke bags.

What has long shocked me is nurses (and others) wearing their uniforms in the street, on public transport, in shops, etc. That has always been asking for infections to be transferred between hospital and outside - potentially in both directions.

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My concern is also one of hygeine. When I worked on the shop floor at an engineering company we all had 3 overalls - one to wear - one spare in the locker - and one off at the cleaners. Surprised the NHS doesn't consider a laundry service essential.

How do you think the bedding gets washed.

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Lots of charities are doing it, and even for the police now. Brian

Most hospital districts have a very large laundry. (Or did have when I was working))

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Nurses are issued with (I think) three uniforms, which they have to take home and "boilwash"[tm] in a daily rota.

What's changed the last few weeks is hospitals insisting they take the uniforms home inside a bag (rather than wearing them).

It's a lot of fuss which could perhaps be solved easier by giving them each a rucksack.

The green "scrubs" which are worn in theatres and other settings requiring a greater degree of hygiene, are pooled, and laundered by the hospital.

I'd guess it was found cheaper to use disposables. Same as so much else these days.

Not any more they dont. Many have been outsourced which resulted in a lot of high-quality 'scrubs' etc vanishing (pinched and sold on ebay or sent abroad ('back home').

Consequently many health trusts rely on cheaper single-use garments which are then dependent on a global just-in-time supply.

Except many hospitals had outsourced their laundry facilities for much of their 'linen' and then done the maths and realised that, like Primark they can just get a 'never ending' supply of cheap single-use garments from overseas.

Girl who worked in my local hairdresser would buy packs of 5 teeshirts in Primark, wear one per day and just bin then.

Works fine until something or someone throws a spanner in the works, like a Pandemic.

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There's an old joke about disposable underwear. Why are they packed in