Queen Alexandra Hospital features on new Top Trumps game celebrating key workers

Doctors, nurses, pest controllers, midwives, sea merchants and hospitals around the country, including Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, are featured in the new Top Trumps games, Britain at its best.

The dual game pack, which is also raising money for the NHS, sees key workers rated in categories including unsung hero, street style and gadgets and gizmos.

Partners of key workers get a maximum 10 out of 10 for being unsung heroes whilst binmen and binwomen score a nine out of ten but come top of the pack for style due to their fluorescent and neon clothing.

Hospital rating categories including the number of beds, fame and a rainbow rating – for how colourful the front of the building is. Queen Alexandra Hospital scored 1,400 for beds, a fame score of 1 and got the maximum 10 out of 10 rainbow rating.

Claire Simon, global marketing manager at Top Trumps, said: ‘Every single front-line key worker is, of course, a heroine and hero and would each score 10 (or even 11) out of 10 by any reckoning if we had devised a Hero category.

‘By creating an Unsung Heroes category we have ensured varying marks, in keeping with the game’s core classic and its unique and much-loved branding.

‘From our research, which has been intensively conducted over the six weeks, partners of key workers came out top in this section. There are an estimated one and a half million partners of key workers in Britain so that’s a lot of Unsung Heroes and Heroines.

‘Many of the public we spoke to pointed out that partners too are putting their lives on the line, albeit less directly. As well as being there physically they are providing emotional support. For that reason we listed partners as key workers.’

The game will be on sale from Monday online at winningmoves.co.uk

Claire added: ‘We are sure that this new edition of Top Trumps can lift spirits in this very challenging and unprecedented period of time, as well as raising money for the NHS, with all net proceeds going direct to the NHS.’

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