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Re: Keyboard covers are 'mandatory' in the healthcare sector...

Clinical keyboards and mice are in use where I work. Our department was instructed to roll them out to wards, A&E and other treatment areas.

Most staff get on and use them but some people actively detest them. The first examples we had of this were the clinical mice being skinned! Keyboards ended up with the surface stabbed and torn. It has been a while since the whole outside has been torn off to reveal the physical keyboard underneath. It would be hard to use as they are all blank!

The first ones we used were really expensive. They were blue and were apparently seen on Casualty. Nowadays we get white "Sterile Flat" ones - as seen on Amazon. No idea what we pay for them though.

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