Award-winning reusables brand responds to the #EndThePadGap crisis with a free online tool showing how quickly washable incontinence products pay for themselves and calls on NHS trusts to adopt reusables as part of value-based procurement.
SEAFORD, EAST SUSSEX — Cheeky Wipes, the UK’s leading reusables brand and B Corp, has launched a free online NHS Pad Gap Savings Calculator in response to the growing crisis in incontinence provision across England.
The tool, available at cheekywipes.com/pad-gap.html, allows anyone affected by NHS rationing to calculate exactly how much they would save by switching from disposable to washable incontinence products, and how quickly a starter bundle would pay for itself.
The launch comes in the wake of an open letter signed by a coalition of leading health organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, Prostate Cancer UK, Bowel and Bladder UK, Bladder Health UK, and Dementia Carers Count warning that NHS trusts are...