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health advisory Hospital Health advisory 2007-11-16 5:21:03

and the changing rooms we have to use - can be

accessed by the general public.

I cycle to work in my uniform - come rain or shine.

Then I may have to do some shopping on the way home.

Could this be something to do with the infections in

our hospital's?

Midwife

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They shouldn't be allowed to wear their uniforms out of work.It just encourages germs and bacteria to collect on them,then they bring it back inside the hospitals where nobody seems to cares.It's completely mad.

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Supposedly for practicality.This practice should be stamped out.

The fact that there is or is not a hospital laundry on the premises is irrelevant or whether the nurses own their uniform or not. The whole point is that nurses WEAR their uniforms in and out of hospitals, either bringing in external contamination picked on the way, or taking bugs from the hospital outwards.

On the continent nurses come into the hospital wearing their own clothes. They go to a changing area where they shower and change into clean surgical pyjamas daily which they discard at the end of their shifts.The rate of transmission of infections is far lower than ours.

If the nurses own their uniforms and have to wash them off the premises, there is no reason why they should not bring the clean ones in a bag, keep spares in a locker, change into them on arrival at work and remove them when before going home.