Are we really too posh to wash?
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Are we really too posh to wash?

Jeremy Bore Nurse, HMP Exeter

Jeremy Bore explains why he led the controversial ‘too posh to wash’ debate at RCN congress last month

My disappointment at this year’s RCN congress was not losing the ‘too posh to wash’ debate, but the small margin by which it was lost. I had hoped to poll no more than 2 per cent in favour, so 4 per cent was a let down.

Nursing Standard. 18, 38, 28-28. doi: 10.7748/ns.18.38.28.s39

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