MY sister’s husband has been in hospital for many months, not related to Covid, and she has to send a parcel with clean clothing etc via taxi some miles away which is left at a desk at the entrance to the hospital (‘Invaluable’ volunteers reveal cheeky items family try to pass to patients, December 27). Regarding the paragraph taking dirty clothing home to be washed, that’s not just patients that do that as staff have also to remove uniform and place it in their own washing machine. In years gone by we were not allowed to go out and about in uniform and all uniforms were washed at Central laundry – we never had infections linked to that. Yes, there were a few cases of wound infections, but nothing major.