NEWS | Industry Updates Coffee roaster donates materials for the
protection of medical workers Specialist coffee roaster 200 Degrees Coffee and members of the public have donated acetate to the Queens Medical Centre hospital (QMC) in Nottingham, to help alleviate the shortage of protective visors for NHS staff working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic With the NHS under huge pressure and limited resources of
personal protective equipment (PPE), specialist medical designers in the orthotics department at QMC turned their attentions from insole production for foot conditions, to the production of vital protective equipment. Acetate forms a large part of the visors worn by NHS staff as part of their PPE. 200 Degrees Coffee initially bought 1,000 acetate sheets and put out a plea to the public for further donations. The people of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire stepped-up; bringing the total to approximately 10,000 acetate sheets which were collated at 200 Degrees’ roast house on Meadow Lane, before delivery to the QMC. Co-founder of 200 Degrees Coffee, Rob Darby, said: “In the current
COVID-19 crisis the NHS is working at the coalface and all efforts are being made to limit the spread and to help support our NHS and the capacity at its hospitals. “The NHS is doing an incredible job of looking after us all during
this pandemic and when we heard that they had limited resources on PPE, we wanted to help. The team at our local hospital, QMC, are doing an amazing job to create these visors in-house and we hope our donation can make a real difference in the effort to save lives. “A big thank you to all those who supported us and donated acetate sheets, it was brilliant to see such a huge response from
other people who just want to help anyway they can.” The specialist
coffee roasters and self- proclaimed coffee geeks also delivered 50 cafetieres – each with a kilogram of freshly ground coffee – to the Nottingham Hospitals Charity, which are now being distributed between NHS staff rooms at QMC and City Hospital in Nottingham. Nigel Gregory, director of development at Nottingham Hospitals
Charity, said: “Boosting the morale of our frontline staff is a hugely important job for us at the charity, so we are absolutely delighted to be able to provide teams across the hospital with these donations of 200 Degrees coffee and cafetieres. We love the fact that local companies are helping their local hospitals. The ability to quickly and easily make some great coffee will do wonders for our hardworking staff. Thanks to all involved.” It’s a team-wide approach at 200 Degrees with finance director,
Stephen Fern, working with his team mates at football club Bingham FC and the local community to raise £6,000. The significant sum was raised over the course of just four days and it has been used to purchase 4,200 protective visors for the QMC and other healthcare providers across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
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