Audit-based bug boost
April 18th 2008 Expolink Software supports PCT's monitoring of environmental cleanliness in accordance to hygiene code
Expolink eases the management of hospital cleanliness through an automated real-time data collection tool for hospital related audits and continual assessments.The mobile auditing tool helps support the management process of cleanliness and regulate cleaning schedules and team responsibilities.
Much recent concern over hospital related cleanliness has been linked to the rise in hospital acquired infections. Expolink's Maximiser provides a customised auditing tool for an integral and important component of environmental hygiene, and is helping to raise overall standards of cleanliness in over a third of UK's hospitals.
PCT's need to adhere to statutory regulations, assurance standards and clinical governance, all of which require the monitoring and on-going improvement of environmental cleanliness for a safe, clean and risk-free environment.
These often require paper-work based assessments, which can be timely and require results and comments to be re-keyed for further analysis. The results are then used by the Healthcare Commission for benchmarking and cross-checking against it's own intelligence, audits and surveys and through a system of targeted spot checks.
Expolink's mobile communication tools are customised to meet the needs of the healthcare and provide a logical and automated framework to assess environment risk at source. The software includes modules that address all aspects of hospital hygiene such as cleaning, laundry, clinical waste, food hygiene,pest control for example and are used widely by estates, house keeping, health & safety managers and infection control teams.
Maximiser allows you to plan cleaning schedules and team responsibilities during assessment and reduce the risk from potential hazards.Each module provides a powerful management framework for assessing hospital cleanliness, simultaneously by mixed teams.For example the dedicated PEAT assessment module provides a thorough way of assessing the cleanliness of rooms and equipment, including an assessment of curtains, blinds, surfaces, toilets and beds at any one time.
Via a remote web sync,data can be downloaded to a centralised PC for improved management control of failures,benchmarking and monitoring of improvement for a safe, clean and risk free environment.
In addition a dedicated Infection Control module is assisting PCT's with the requirements of the INCA audit toolkit,making reporting so much easier and the auditing process so much more efficient.
As a proven monitoring tool, Expolink is helping to automate all types of hospital related audits and assessments including food hygiene, infection control, health & safety, risk,waste management and building control,encouraging regular and frequent monitoring, to protect patients, public and staff,providing a high quality environment.
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