Following the increasing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia throughout 2020, the need for local access to personal protective equipment has become more and more important, particularly in a cancer care setting. For Icon Cancer Centre, a commitment to keeping people safe and ensuring centres remain open for patients to receive cancer treatment during this challenging time meant that having adequate PPE stock levels to support 30 centres across Australia was of the highest priority.
When Icon identified an urgent requirement for 5 000 infection control gowns but were unable to source stock from usual suppliers, with all Australian and overseas stocks exhausted, a unique solution was required to ensure the health of patients and staff remained protected – high-quality, Australian-made PPE available immediately.
It was thanks to Melbourne uniform supplier Thread Apparel that this idea became a reality.
