[Lilly]

Originally Posted by Neil

Maybe someone can explain why Nursing staff are allowed to go to work and go home in their uniforms? The hospital likes to say most infections are brought into the hospital by visitors. What about staff wearing their uniforms to/from work (this includes Doctors)?

Good question, Neil.

I believe that nurses uniforms used to be washed at the hospital to kill all germs. They were washed at a very high temperature I am told.

Domestic washing machines do not get hot enough to kill all the bugs.

I think that this should still be the case and that hospital staff should not come to work / go home in their uniforms.

That would be something they could do to cut the spreading of germs.

The rest is out of their hands.

As for the cleaners, well, as has already been said, there is a desperate shortage and the existing cleaners are faced with more work than they can cope with.

If no-one says anything about it then nothing will be done.

Complaints need to come in and be quantified before anything can be done.