Cardboard nurses sabotaged - Update

Cardboard cut-out nurses set up to ask hospital visitors to wash their hands have been sabotaged to play popular theme tunes from the A-Team, Top Cat and Mission Impossible.

Cheeky staff at Lincoln County Hospital also allegedly rigged one of the 30 life-size cut-outs to shout "Boo" at unsuspecting visitors.

A hospital spokeswoman confirmed the cut-outs were introduced at entrances to wards last week and were programmed to tell visitors: "Please clean your hands before entering the wards."



The initiative was part of an effort by hospital bosses to stop super-bugs spreading.

Anna Temple, a spokeswoman for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust which runs the hospital, said she was unable to confirm which tunes were played.

"We are obviously very disappointed that this has been done and that those responsible don't take infection control and prevention as seriously as we do."

You can hear what the nurses are meant to sound like on this page.