Scotland's healthcare workers have new uniforms and dress code
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, December 24, 2008
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Soon physicians in Scotland’s hospitals won’t be wearing the traditional white coat, their trademark uniform for more than a century. National Health Service (NHS) hospitals are banning the white coats, as well as neckties, long sleeves, wrist watches, and wearing pens and scissors in outside pockets, reported the Guardian.co.uk Web site. The new dress code that goes into effect in 2009 is all part of an attempt to crackdown on hospital-aquired infections.
In fact, tens of thousands of NHS staff will soon be wearing new uniforms, reported stv.tv. The new uniforms are designed to be lighter and more comfortable and hospitals will ban staff from wearing them outside of work, (unless required to work in the community or respond to an emergency), in order to avoid cross-contamination of infectious germs.
The new uniforms are short sleeved and color-coded to help patients identify various healthcare workers.
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