Laundry association highlights hygiene issues with nurses' uniforms

摘要

The Textiles Services Association (TSA) has responded to recent media coverage of a report by Professor Gillian Leng, Deputy Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which highlighted the potential risk of failures in infection control in the UK's National Health Service (NHS), specifically through nurses' uniforms. TSA, which represents the UK's textile care industry, says failures in infection control in the NHS are not the fault of nurses, doctors or any one individual in the UK healthcare system. It claims the system itself is at fault and that nurses' uniforms are one of the biggest threats to patients.