A HOSPITAL has backed a scheme to get patients wearing their regular clothes to help their recovery.

Visitors to Glan Clwyd hospital on Tuesday may have noticed many members of staff walking around wearing their pyjamas.

Ruth Millward, matron at the hospital, said: “We’ve re-launched our support to #EndPJParalysis.

“All our staff are working really hard to encourage our patients to get up in the morning, change into their day clothes and to move around as soon as they are able to, which helps their wellbeing and recovery.”

Patient Kaye Thorley from Flint, who is currently a patient on ward five, said: “When I get up in the morning, it’s really important for me to change out of my night clothes into day clothes.

“It makes me feel better and gives me a sense of normality.

“I also try to move around as much as possible, so that I don’t lose mobility whilst in hospital.”

Staff at ward three took the campaign a step further by pledging to promote #EndPJParalysis by “asking families to help prompt their relatives to get into their day clothes” and “to remind patients of the activities they would normally be involved with when at home” as well as to “encourage patients to wear their own clothes to make them feel more homely.”

Eileen Clayton from Abergele, a patient on ward three agreed, saying; “I think it’s important for me to get out of bed in the morning and change into my own clothes, it makes me feel better and by doing this, it’s also preparing me for when I go home.”

Ruth Millward added: “We’d be grateful if relatives or friends who have loved ones in hospital could also ensure that they have the following during their hospital stay: day clothes and comfortable shoes, regular medication, glasses, night clothes, dentures, hearing aids, non-slip slippers, toiletries, usual walking aids and any medical / community care plans if applicable.”

To help those patients who have come into hospital with no clothes, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has set up a clothes bank at Glan Clwyd Hospital.

Anyone wishing to donate clean clothing for men or women can drop them off in the Emergency Department reception desk.