Hospitals forbid staff to go home in uniform

Link: News & Star.

STAFF at north Cumbria’s two main hospitals will soon be banned from going home in their uniforms. The move, which comes into effect next month, is part of the health trust’s drive to cut the spread of superbugs such as MRSA and C Difficile. Sandy Brown, the trust’s nursing director, said unions had been informed of the draft policy and that the trust needed to look at facilities to allow staff to change. But public sector union Unison said staff should not be travelling to and from work in their uniforms anyway.