April 7, 2020 3.39 pm
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University of Lincoln makes scrubs for healthcare workers
‘Doing what we can’
The University of Lincoln is now making scrubs as it steps up its efforts to support healthcare workers in Lincolnshire during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: University of Lincoln
The University of Lincoln is now making scrubs as it steps up its efforts to support healthcare workers at the city’s hospital tackling the coronavirus crisis.
Staff and students from the University’s School of Engineering already started to meet the immediate need from United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust by manufacturing safety visors and other equipment.
In partnerships with a nationwide project which started in Boston called For The Love Of Scrubs, volunteers are now using facilities at the University of Lincoln to cut and sew scrubs for healthcare workers.
The project, which has attracted nationwide support of over 20,000 volunteers, was started by Ashleigh Lindsell, who is a nurse at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston.
Scrubs made for healthcare workers in Lincolnshire. Photo: University of Lincoln
The team of volunteers cut out the scrubs pattern for other volunteer sewers in Lincolnshire who may not have the space or equipment to do so. Photo: University of Lincoln
The university’s expert volunteers are now making scrubs and 700 safety visors a week for healthcare workers and frontline staff.
The visors are being provided to frontline workers including GPs, pharmacists, care workers and supermarket employees.
The head band for one of several safety visors being manufactured by the University of Lincoln.
Fiona Robertson, a garment technician within the School of Design, has opened the pattern cutting and manufacturing studios at the University of Lincoln to make scrubs with a team of volunteers.
She said: “I heard about the project and thought we have all this space and equipment at the university that could be used to produce scrubs. It’s a large space, so we can observe social distancing while we work, and it’s good for us to be doing something positive during this difficult time too.
“If we all do what we can, then we will move through this situation faster. We have the facilities and staff to be able to help, therefore we help – no question.”
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We are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fail to stop in Welton, Lincoln.
It’s believed a black or grey 4×4 or SUV vehicle collided with a silver Mini Cooper that was parked along Cliff Road. The incident was reported just after 3pm today.
If you witnessed the collision or have dashcam footage available, please get in touch.
By calling 101 quoting incident 275 of 1st July.
By emailing [email protected] quoting incident 275 of 1st July in the subject line.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can report via the independent charity CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.
A snack bar in Lincoln has been told to make improvements in several areas after being given a one-star food hygiene rating.
Monks Road Snack Bar, located on 23 Monks Road, was visited by city council inspectors on May 25, 2022 and the rating was recently published on the Food Standards Agency’s website.
The standards found at the time of inspection showed that improvement was necessary in the areas of ‘hygienic food handling’ and the ‘Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building’.
It was also deemed that there was “major improvement necessary” relating to the ‘Management of food safety’.
Monks Road Snack Bar was previously given five-star ratings in June 2016 and September 2018.
The Lincolnite tried to contact the business on numerous occasions throughout the day on Friday, July 1 but the line was continuously engaged.
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