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Here at AWB Textiles we’ve witnessed the rise of the scrub suit to become the daily outfit of choice for healthcare workers – across nursing and medical professions and through to dental staff, vets and care home workers. They are often even worn by admin staff too.

What is about the seemingly humble scrub clothing that makes it such a crucial outfit in today’s health and medical environments?

The anatomy of the scrub suit - graphic showing five key features

Here we break down the anatomy of the scrub suit to reveal what makes them so popular:

1. They’re easy to put on and take off

For doctors and nurses encountering blood and all sorts of fluids having a scrub suit (top and bottoms) that can be easily changed is essential. Changing out of scrubs is easy, so professionals are able to stay looking clean and presentable.

2. Highly functional

Scrubs come with pockets, so you can keep a phone on you if you need to. Breast pockets also allow for pens and pencils.

3. Functional but not at the expense of form!

Although highly functional newer scrubs have also been designed with form in mind – with Xtreme Stretch now offering a slimmer more styled fit.

4. Super easy to clean

Being easy to clean means that scrubs have become the outfit of choice for medical and healthcare professionals. New fabrics have only made cleaning easier too, plus stronger weaves in fabrics help to better prevent tearing and cutting.

5. Many colours available

We offer scrub suits in a huge range of colours, depending on your preference and/or role where you work. We have masculine and feminine colours, patterns and a spectrum of different hues to choose from.

Shop for our medical uniforms and scrub suits.

Steve Salt

As Director of Business Development, I see my role as building long term sustainable relationships with customers across all our market sectors, providing the best possible uniform solution suiting the customers image, focus and budget. Having joined the company in 1993, I have over 30 years experience in healthcare clothing and uniform covering the evolution of AWB Textiles from a soley hospital focused textile provider to the broad spectrum healthcare uniform supplier we have become today. I’m also on the national exec of the Society of Hospital Laundry and Linen Service Managers. I’m proud of the history and heritage of AWB and this drives me to provide our customers with the best possible service and the latest innovations in healthcare uniform, be it in style,  function,  fabrics or sustainability. Out of work, I love to travel ( particularly Greece and Italy ), tragically I’m a Stoke City football fan and I love to walk our little Blenheim Cavvie ‘Beau’ around our lovely local area.

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