As some of the lowest-paid NHS staff prepare to go on strike over working conditions, they reveal the scandal forcing them to put the public at risk with contaminated clothes
Rapid Response Team workers at Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital, tasked with cleaning infectious disease areas, claim they lack proper facilities to decontaminate themselves and their uniforms, forcing them to transport potentially contaminated clothing home on public transport. They cite inadequate break areas, lack of risk assessments, and being stretched to cover housekeeping duties, all of which put themselves, their families, the public, and patients at risk of exposure to diseases like Ebola and Monkeypox.
