Advice regarding laundry and linen
Simon Corben, Director of Estates for NHS England has issued a letter asking organisations to manage stocks of scrubs gowns, alginate bags and linen cages carefully and ensure they are not disposing of reusable products or surgical gowns. Please click here to view.
It is critical that management of linen is considered as part of surge planning and, where possible, alternative solutions such as sending uniforms to laundries are provided. This will support availability across all trusts where scrubs are required. Excess linen stock should not be held on shelves and needs to be released back into the system.
Laundry suppliers have confirmed they can launder uniforms in place of scrubs and organisations should work with their suppliers to arrange this where required, ensuring that uniforms are bagged separately for ease of processing.
For any further information please contact: england.covid-estates@nhs.net marking for the attention of Emma Brookes.