title: Patient clothing. The problems of providing a personal clothing service.
abstract: Allowing patients or clients in hospital to wear their own clothes is a fundamental part of good nursing care, yet it has not become universal practice, despite being laid down as policy by the Department of Health in 1972. This paper describes one ward's experience of trying to set up a personalised laundry scheme, and the obstacles encountered.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003020:Clothing; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007847:Laundry Service, Hospital