WRAP Introduces New Real Nappy Resources for Healthcare Professionals and Nappy Laundries
19 February 2007
Two new resources which will help to boost the use of real nappies throughout the UK have been launched by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme).
Both the Best Practice Hospital Guide and the new Publicly Available Specification (PAS106) for real nappy laundries will provide healthcare professionals with a variety of advice and information.
The Hospital Best Practice Guide has been designed to provide step by step guidance for maternity hospitals, healthcare professionals and local authorities. It is aimed at helping to promote the use of real nappies on maternity wards and promote general awareness of real nappies to parents.
A survey conducted on behalf of WRAP in March 2006 found that nappy use is established within the first 11 days of birth, so creating this avenue of information for parents is key to enabling them to make an informed decision as early as possible.
The Guide uses information from questionnaires sent out to over 300 maternity hospitals in the UK to illustrate circumstances in which using real nappies on maternity wards is feasible and directs users to the Real Nappy Campaign website to download awareness material for use in hospital maternity wards.
The creation of the PAS106 offers the laundry market a code of practice which describes from collective knowledge the most appropriate actions to be taken in the process of cleaning nappies. The nappy washing specification should be used as a code of practice alongside the Department of Health Hygiene Specification Guidelines (95) 18 which are developed purely for the launder of hospital linen.
Through encouraging smaller laundries to use the PAS106 guidelines, it is anticipated that transportation and washing methods will be harmonised and therefore result in a consistently high level of service to customers. The creation of the standard also saves money and avoids unnecessary duplication of effort for the laundries.
Deirdre Dudley-Owen, says: “The PAS106 and the Hospital Best Practice Guide could not have been put together without the input of professionals in the laundries and the hospitals. These documents are available free of charge from www.realnappycampaign.com and we are sure that they will provide informative and practical guidance for those practitioners keen to learn more about real nappy use.”
To download a copy of the Real Nappy Hospital Best Practice Guide and PAS106 please go to www.realnappycampaign.com
Both the Best Practice Hospital Guide and the new Publicly Available Specification (PAS106) for real nappy laundries will provide healthcare professionals with a variety of advice and information.
The Hospital Best Practice Guide has been designed to provide step by step guidance for maternity hospitals, healthcare professionals and local authorities. It is aimed at helping to promote the use of real nappies on maternity wards and promote general awareness of real nappies to parents.
A survey conducted on behalf of WRAP in March 2006 found that nappy use is established within the first 11 days of birth, so creating this avenue of information for parents is key to enabling them to make an informed decision as early as possible.
The Guide uses information from questionnaires sent out to over 300 maternity hospitals in the UK to illustrate circumstances in which using real nappies on maternity wards is feasible and directs users to the Real Nappy Campaign website to download awareness material for use in hospital maternity wards.
The creation of the PAS106 offers the laundry market a code of practice which describes from collective knowledge the most appropriate actions to be taken in the process of cleaning nappies. The nappy washing specification should be used as a code of practice alongside the Department of Health Hygiene Specification Guidelines (95) 18 which are developed purely for the launder of hospital linen.
Through encouraging smaller laundries to use the PAS106 guidelines, it is anticipated that transportation and washing methods will be harmonised and therefore result in a consistently high level of service to customers. The creation of the standard also saves money and avoids unnecessary duplication of effort for the laundries.
Deirdre Dudley-Owen, says: “The PAS106 and the Hospital Best Practice Guide could not have been put together without the input of professionals in the laundries and the hospitals. These documents are available free of charge from www.realnappycampaign.com and we are sure that they will provide informative and practical guidance for those practitioners keen to learn more about real nappy use.”
To download a copy of the Real Nappy Hospital Best Practice Guide and PAS106 please go to www.realnappycampaign.com
Editor's notes:
- WRAP works in partnership to encourage and enable businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimise landfill, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment.
- Established as a not-for-profit company in 2000, WRAP is backed by Government funding from Defra and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Working in seven key areas (Construction, Retail, Manufacturing, Organics, Business Growth, Behavioural Change, and Local Authority Support), WRAP’s work focuses on market development and support to drive forward recycling and materials resource efficiency within these sectors, as well as wider communications and awareness activities including the multi-media national Recycle Now campaign for England.
- More information on all of WRAP’s programmes can be found at www.wrap.org.uk
