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Rothwell Drive,
Halifax
I READ your item headlined "Stop, gel and go is hospital message" (Courier, June 23) with its intention of stopping the spread of germs.
On Sunday, while at a petrol station, I saw a nurse filling her car with petrol. How did I know she was a nurse? Because she was wearing her full uniform.
We were behind her as she left and were following the same route as her. No guessing where she turned off; that's right, into the hospital car park, presumably on her way to work.
Wouldn't it help cut down on infections getting into hospitals if nurses didn't wear their uniforms out of the workplace?
The nurse we saw didn't wipe her hands after using the petrol pump; she just got straight into her car.
You can see nurses in their uniforms walking round shops, driving cars, on the buses. Their uniforms are coming into contact with germs of all kinds all the time, yet all they do when they arrive for work is to wash their hands.
For me the best type of germ control would be for nurses to only be allowed to wear their uniforms when at work. Before and after work they should be in their own clothes.
(Mrs) C. Brook

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MeanRanter,

Hx 01/07/2008 12:21:55
So Mrs Brook, I take it that if you had to visit a patient in hospital you would take a change of clothing so you didnt contaminate a nice infection free ward with the germs you are carrying?
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curly1,

brighouse 01/07/2008 12:30:25
ever thought of going to see a nut docter mrs brooks
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cctv man,

HX 01/07/2008 12:33:22
MRS Brook is absolutely right.Nurses should not wear their uniform before going on duty.
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Joanne Calotte,

01/07/2008 13:04:02
I agree with Mrs Brook.
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KINGCROSSITE and EX Soldier ,

01/07/2008 16:06:54
Well Mrs Brook where do nurses put their clothes at work? Answer: Not in a locker coz they dont have em . simple eh ? I presume ( as you presumed) that you wash your hands at the petrol station after filling up your car,and after getting offf a bus that you use so often,
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Dave U,

Outlane 01/07/2008 18:52:59
I saw a visitor going into Halifax dressed like he'd just been in drains or a pig-sty. He didn't care a tos@s. (Sorry but the usual spelling has been deemed unsuiable!)
The hospital is fighting a losing battle - no control over visitors is just one problem. Kingcrossite sounds as if he knows one of the problems - have nurses anywhere to keep their uniforms? Are they cleaned after every shift? (Not at their expense I hope.)
Did Mrs Brook follow the nurse into the car park and then into the ward? She might have been using the cash machine/coffee shop or whatever. It's bad enough when Bob Heys constantly, and negatively, attacks the hospital - usually around election times and without his Lib-Dem badge on - but are we competent to comment?
The Courier's Today's Vote is a farce too - how the heck do we know?
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Dave U,

Outlane 01/07/2008 18:53:08
I saw a visitor going into Halifax dressed like he'd just been in drains or a pig-sty. He didn't care a tos@s. (Sorry but the usual spelling has been deemed unsuiable!)
The hospital is fighting a losing battle - no control over visitors is just one problem. Kingcrossite sounds as if he knows one of the problems - have nurses anywhere to keep their uniforms? Are they cleaned after every shift? (Not at their expense I hope.)
Did Mrs Brook follow the nurse into the car park and then into the ward? She might have been using the cash machine/coffee shop or whatever. It's bad enough when Bob Heys constantly, and negatively, attacks the hospital - usually around election times and without his Lib-Dem badge on - but are we competent to comment?
The Courier's Today's Vote is a farce too - how the heck do we know?
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BILABONGSBACK,

01/07/2008 21:15:17
Nurses only allowed to wear their uniforms at work ? NO WAY !!!!!!!!!!...
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KINGCROSSITE and EX Soldier ,

02/07/2008 05:37:57
Well said Dave U, too many knockers around on a subject they know little or booga all about. And the vote is a joke.
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KINGCROSSITE and EX Soldier ,

02/07/2008 05:39:48
And Dave guess what mate ...........Nurses clean their own uniforms, risking taking home to their houses germs etc.
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