Why are some NHS staff unkept looking?

[BoozySuzie]

I don't visit hospitals often thank goodness but I can't help but notice a lot of staff in hospitals are quite scruffy. Surely working in a hospital environment it is imperitive to be spotlessly clean and well groomed?? The Philipino nurses always look clean and tidy it's just our staff.

Are you talking about the full range of NHS staff or just some job groups?

The HR people will look spotless but their hearts are black.

secretaries all look the same ime

The nurses in particular.

scruffy or dirty?

YABU
Perhaps because they are poorly paid?
I would be more concerned with their standards of hygiene, clinical competance and professional skill
BTW it's unkempt and imperative

Erm, NHS employees are generally low paid and many work shifts.

Being well groomed doesn't have any bearing on clean hands etc.

I work in a hospital and being presentable, and, obviously above all, clean is very much part of the culture. Not sure what you mean by scruffy - hairstyles? Clothes?

I did meet a drop-dead gorgeous surgeon once who unfortunately had the most awful BO but to be fair he'd been working very hard.

You don't visit hospials often but you notice the staff are dirty?

Maybe Boozy, Phillipinos are more neat and tidy than Brits? Do you think so?

Scruffy creased clothes and scruffy hair. Some look like they've never seen a shower. I'm not talking about glamour pusses.

Bring back the matron.

They always looked neat as a pin on ANgels

I can't say I'm hugely bothered about creased clothes and tidy hair, to be honest. I want them to wash their hands, but looking smart is no guarantee they'll have done that.

I used to wear a starched collar, long sleeves and a frilly lace hat.
My 'scruffy' tunic and trousers allow better standards of moving and handling practices and infection control compliance.
But, perhaps it's more important that I look pretty?

BRING BACK MATRON !!!

She would get them back in order !

But in general aren't we getting a more scruffier and casual in our appernace - I blame a labour government !

as part of my job I am regularly peed on by babies, and sometimes pooed on too. At other times I get covered in plaster. I don't wear a white coat (because I work with kids and apparently it's scary , but even if I did want to, we're not allowed to now, as they're said to be unhygienic.

For this reason I usually wear trousers/ tops that are machine washable, and as I rarely have time to iron, most of my tops are cotton jersey, log sleeve V-necks. Compared to some I may be scruffy, but I assure you, I shower every day, and my hand hygiene is pretty good.

lol at CaptainUnderpants

Where have you lot been?
Matron is back and is much more concerned with the reduction of hospital associated infection than pretty hair styles.

can be a bugger to iron cheap polyester

Unfit - I am not saying nurses should be dolly birds. Some look scruffy, and well tbh, quite dirty looking.

I suspect it's a status thing. Everybody dresses as scruffily as their position will let them get away with.

I'm intrigued by your definition of 'dirty-looking'. What do you mean, physical signs of dirt, or like someone has done a days work?
Plastered all over my ward are 'It's OK to ask' posters telling patients that if they haven't seen a memeber of staff clean their hands then they should ask them to do so.
If I saw filty-looking staff then I would report it.

My best friend is a nurse and she works 12 hours in one shift

She works very hard and not much pay even though she has been a senior nurse for many years

My sister's a nurse. A typical shift runs from 6.30am and she usually stays an hour and a half after it ends because there just isn't time to do all the paperwork as well as the patient care in the alleged working day. She works through without a meal break - average day she has a cup of tea when she starts and then might get another one if she's very lucky.

I wouldn't be surprised if she looked a bit scruffy by the end of the day, tbh, she's lifting patients and running around like a blue arsed fly for the best part of ten hours.

and your point Kanga???