Not for profit, of course, but simply to get patients to wash their hands or use hand gel more frequently.

Staff at the hospital's maxillofacial department have recorded a cover of a Spice Girls song to urge visitors to use cleaning gel.

The song – to the tune of the girl group's 1998 hit Stop – plays every time a patient walks past one of two life-size cardboard cut-outs.

The project has seen patient hand-washing rates climb from 25% to 91% in just two weeks, according to an audit by the department.

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