thetimes.co.uk - Hospital staff who take their uniforms home to wash may not be using water that is hot enough to kill off certain bacteria, a study found.
Nurses and other healthcare workers could be inadvertently spreading hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA, according to researchers from De Montfort University in Leicester, who are calling for national guidelines on cleaning uniforms and recommend that washing be moved back in-house.
They found 49 per cent of staff were not washing their uniforms at 60C — the temperature recommended as being sufficient to kill most micro-organisms — and 40 per cent were washing them in the same
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