Medical clinics · What customers tell us
We supply uniforms to general practices, specialist clinics and medical centres across Australia. Almost none of them come to us because they want to look smarter. They come because a patient asked the wrong person a question, or because somebody finally added up what reimbursing everyone was costing. This is what they actually say.
1,000+
Healthcare organisations
60,000+
Garments supplied
40+
Years experience
95%+
Client reorder rate
The pattern
The usual arrangement when a practice first talks to us is that people buy their own scrubs and the clinic reimburses them. It sounds flexible, and for a while it is. Then somebody stands in reception on a Monday morning and counts four different shades of navy on six people, none of whom did anything wrong.
Larger medical centres describe the same thing with more people in it: an arrangement that grew rather than got decided, and no single answer to what it costs, because it never arrived as a line item.
What they tell us
Drawn from the conversations we have with general practices, specialist clinics and medical centres rather than from any one organisation. Where a single client has said something better than we could, their story sits on its own page with their name on it and their approval behind it.
This is the single most common trigger we hear from clinics. A patient asks a hygienist or a nurse something only reception can answer, or asks the practice manager a clinical question. Nobody minds once. It is the third time in a fortnight that makes somebody pick up the phone.
When staff buy their own and claim it back, the spend arrives as a handful of expense claims across the year rather than as a uniform budget. Practices tell us the number surprised them when they finally added it up — not because it was enormous, but because nobody had ever seen it in one place.
A clinic has no procurement function, so uniforms land on whoever has the least excuse to say no. It is almost always the practice manager, and it is almost always done after hours. What they want back is not a better catalogue. It is the task itself, gone.
Small teams price the order against the headcount they have today. Within a month or two somebody joins, somebody ruins a top, and the first reorder is for three garments — which feels silly and is entirely avoidable. Ordering spares up front is the thing practices most often say they would do differently.
When we ask what is different afterwards, the answer is rarely about the garments. It is that a patient walking in can tell at a glance who does what, and that the practice reads as one organisation rather than six people who happen to work in the same building.
What usually changes
Not a methodology — just what clinics tend to do once they decide to settle it, described without the numbers that only belong to the practice they came from.
Not the same garment for everyone, but one set for each. This is the decision that answers the mistaken-identity problem, and it is usually the first thing settled.
Everyone picks their own size, which removes the sizing argument entirely and means nobody can blame the practice manager for it afterwards.
Enough to cover a new starter and a ruined top without triggering a three-garment reorder. The one thing practices most often wish they had done first time.
So somebody joining in March is in the same uniform as everybody else by their first shift, rather than their second week.
How these are made
The order matters. We interview, we transcribe, we cut for length, and then they read it before anyone else does. If they want a line out, it comes out — and if they change their mind after publication, the story comes down the same day.
A recorded interview, not a form
Cut for length, never rewritten for tone
Read and approved before publishing
Figures from their records, not ours
Named with permission, anonymous on request
Withdrawn on request, without discussion
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Tell us yours
You don’t have to have a dramatic story. “It turns up and it fits” is a story, and it’s the one most people are actually trying to buy.
A forty-minute conversation, recorded
You read and approve it before it’s published
Anonymous is fine, and so is changing your mind
Nothing is offered in exchange
Sending this isn’t consent to publish. Nothing goes on the site until you’ve read the final text and approved it in writing — and it comes down again the day you ask.
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Avery is cut for a contemporary, slightly tapered fit that flatters without restricting movement. Prefer a relaxed fit or planning to layer? Size up.
| Model — Women's | 5'7", wearing size S |
| Model — Men's | 6'1", wearing size L |
| Fit | True to size, tapered body |
| Length | Hip-length, V-neckline |
| Chest (CM) | Body Length | Sleeve | |
|---|---|---|---|
| XXS | 81–86 | 58 | 30.5 |
| XS | 86–91 | 60 | 31.5 |
| S | 91–97 | 62 | 32.5 |
| M | 97–102 | 64 | 33.5 |
| L | 102–107 | 66 | 34.5 |
| XL | 107–114 | 68 | 35.5 |
| 2XL | 114–122 | 70 | 36.5 |
| 3XL | 122–132 | 72 | 37.5 |
| 4XL | 132–142 | 74 | 38.5 |
