Lifecycle of a glove
Royal College of Nursing
– Scriptwriting
– Illustration and storyboards
– Narration
– Animation and video production
A colourful and engaging animated video in a story that showed the surprisingly complex journey of a simple exam glove.
The Environmental Cost of NHS Nitrile Gloves
Nitrile and vinyl synthetic gloves are the main types of exam gloves used by the NHS. Gloves are manufactured thousands of miles away, passing through many production processes before reaching the UK. The Journey starts with the NHS Supply chain, with ordering placed in East Asia, many months in advance.
Every year the NHS uses 1.7 billion nitrile gloves, costing around £48 million. Unlike natural rubber, acrylonitrile and butadiene are derived from crude oil. The oil wells can be thousands of miles away from the glove factory. The NHS needs around 200 containers worth of supplies per shipment, approximately 4,000 every year.
Raising Awareness Through Manufacturing Storytelling
As part of Glove Awareness Day and to make nurses aware of the manufacturing and environmental cost of the many gloves they wear every day, we were asked to produce a video showing the materials involved, complexity of manufacturing process the huge amounts of resources used, and the vast distances required from manufacture to delivery at an NHS hospital.
We researched and wrote the script, created the colourful illustrations and animated the video to show the whole process from start to finish. Each part of the video flowed into the next, revealing every part of a complicated and lengthy process, to create a seamless story that showed the surprisingly complex journey of something as simple as an exam glove.
