It comes after Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, said this month\u2019s doctor strike would cost around \u00a3240 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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When Daniel\u2019s partner had a rupture during childbirth, she was transferred to an emergency theatre. Dressed in scrubs and clinical masks, medical staff began asking Daniel medical questions and to hold equipment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a while of looking confused at them, they ended up moving me away from my wife and I had to stand in the corner of the room,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This is a surprisingly common experience in hospital theatre where there can be multiple people \u2013 including doctors, nurses, radiographers, students, medical reps and sometimes partners \u2013 dressed head to toe in the same scrubs, with only their eyes visible. This can lead to confusion and delays when each second is critical.<\/p>\n
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Andrew Stevenson, consultant orthopedic surgeon at Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset, told The i Paper: \u201cOne of the things several midwives said to me is that when birthing partners are in the operating room they get put in the same scrubs and there\u2019s countless times when they\u2019ve been asked to do a medical task.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine there\u2019s blood everywhere and they\u2019re worried about the safety of their baby and partner and then someone asks you to take the rubbish out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stevenson, who is the sustainable lead at the Royal College of Surgeons, said that in the three orthopedic theatres in his hospital they use 90,000 single-use hats (which cost approximately 18p) a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nuts,\u201d he said. \u201cWe literally wear them for a day and throw them away.\u201d <\/p>\n
Former nurse, Danielle Checketts, has created a surprisingly simple solution: washable name and job title badges that clip onto reusable surgical hats.<\/p>\n
Not only will it improve patient safety, but by ditching disposable headgear the low-tech invention could save the NHS<\/a> an estimated \u00a316.2m a year and reduce landfill waste it is estimated based.<\/p>\n It comes after Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, said this month\u2019s doctor strike would cost around \u00a3240 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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