The healthcare cleaning division of the global ISS Group has more than 25 years’ experience in providing clinical and specialist healthcare cleaning and will use the permanent unit as an extension of a rolling programme with all the hospital’s mobile equipment being taken to the unit and regularly deep cleaned. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is one of the first in the UK to minimise the potential of cross infection through the introduction of a deep cleaning programme, says the company.
Simon Cox, md of ISS Mediclean, said: “Ensuring that hospitals are safe and pleasant environments for patients, clinicians and all the other people who need to be there is what we do. The Trust has been incredibly supportive and we are both equally pleased with the impressive results so far.”
The self-contained decontamination unit is fitted with modern technology and equipment to meet any conventional decontamination demands and includes independent water and power supplies; microfibre technology; chlorine-based cleaning products; dry steam cleaning machines; and portable ozone decontamination units. Environmental monitoring will be carried out at each stage of the process to provide a documented record of decontamination.
The innovations of the permanent unit follow the success of a previous ISS Mediclean initiative at the hospital – a mobile decontamination unit built into the back of a dedicated vehicle. Mobile units with the same technology as the permanent unit can deliver clinical cleaning to any healthcare facility. Any portable equipment, including beds, furniture, wheelchairs and trolleys can be transported to this facility and cleaned without causing disruption.
The permanent decontamination unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital will allow up to five beds to be cleaned at a time leaving items clinically clean.
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