London tailors make scrubs for National Health Service frontline workers.

While UK frontline medical and hospital workers continue to face a shortage of  Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), businesses have been stepping in to provide a helping hand during the Covid-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown.

Therefore it is heart-warming to learn that London bespoke suit makers Henry Herbert have put on hold their usual traditional suit-making to turn their hand to creating much needed scrubs for frontline workers.

Based in Bloomsbury, the traditional tailors are creating the royal blue NHS-approved scrubs which are being sent out on a daily basis to the front line heroes saving lives.  


The team of two tailors have received a huge amount of requests directly from NHS doctors who have resorted to source their own scrubs as the hospitals are unable to keep up with the demand.  The tailors use NHS-approved 100% cotton to create tops and bottoms in small, medium and large, made from their workshops in Bloomsbury.

Henry Herbert tailors have funded the project themselves and also have a go-fund-me page on which they have raised close to £1,000 so far which is used to buy the materials.  To donate, one can click on the go-fund-me page.

"As a small business the life line we’ve been given from the government has been invaluable and we wanted to be able to in turn help the country and show our appreciation to the NHS by donating scrubs to as many people as we can," says Charlie Baker-Collingwood, Founder of Henry Herbert.
They are making an average of 25 scrubs a day and are working 6 days a week.  Last week, their first, they were able to deliver 150 sets of scrubs.
Anyone frontline workers wishing to place an order can go to the Henry Herbert website for details.