Cardboard nurses will dispense free advice on wards

Cardboard nurses are asking patients and visitors to wash their hands at hospital wards in Lincolnshire.

The new cut-out nurses contain a recorded message activated by movement as people walk past. The message asks people to clean their hands on arrival and before leaving the hospital wards.



The nurses will be placed at Lincoln County Hospital, Boston's Pilgrim Hospital, Grantham and District Hospital and Louth County Hospital.

They have been supplied to the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust by NHS East Midlands. The cut-out nurses are already being used to tackle the spread of infections in two Nottinghamshire hospitals in Mansfield and Newark.