A stay in hospital inevitably involves poor sleep through noise and uncomfortable beds – regardless of whether you are ill to start with. One of the problems is that the base sheet always ends up after 5 minutes in a scrunched up mess beneath you, displaced from the plastic mattress on a bed that moves.
Why not use a fitted base sheet? Rumour has it that they do in Exeter – why not at Derriford? It would remove one of the barriers to sleep and the HCAs and nurses I spoke to said it would also be easier to make the bed.
It means you would have a different sheet for the base then the top but that is a small price to pay for a better night’s sleep and less time making the bed.
"Fitted sheets on beds."
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