Cleaning teams in hospitals and care homes put a huge amount of effort into their housekeeping operations. The aim is to create and maintain safe facilities that provide a pleasant environment and protect patients, guests, staff, and visitors against infections. But, asserts Donna Mitchell, doing the work is only part of the equation – people also need to “feel” safe and that often comes down to “perceptions.”

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How will hospitals ensure that their premises are clean and hygienic when out-patients and visitors finally return in large numbers? Liam Mynes poses this question as the healthcare sector works towards reopening for business as usual.

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Chris Wakefield reviews the specific moments that hand hygiene is required in healthcare settings and how it can be implemented most effectively to boost compliance.

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Chris Wakefield reviews the specific moments that hand hygiene is required in healthcare settings and how it can be implemented most effectively to boost compliance.

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While governmental lockdowns forced many businesses to close their doors, many Ecolab textile care customers rapidly transformed their operations to support in the fight against COVID-19. Bert Bakker, vice president corporate accounts Textile Care at Ecolab Europe, reflects on the past few months and provides insight that will help commercial laundries restart safely and build resilience in the future.

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Extensive and thorough cleaning is the best way to keep a hospital facility in the cleanest state, but, argues Craig Boyle from Bagnalls, this can have an impact on the general wear and tear of the building. Find out other ways to keep your healthcare facility as clean as possible and how to combat the depreciation of the building this can cause.

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Following the success of National Bug Busting Day on 31 January, MediSupplies is raising awareness of measures that can be taken to prevent cross-contamination and reduce the spread of infection within organisations.

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The cleaning industry has recently seen a change in thinking with regards to cleaning. The focus once again now seems to be more on 'good old fashioned' thorough cleaning practices such as dry steam cleaning, argues Thomas Stuecken, chairman of OspreyDeepclean.

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Emmet O’Callaghan, product specialist with CPA Engineered Solutions, discusses the danger presented by inadequately treated cooling coils in hospitals, and the issues that stem from the biofilm produced in the coil

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Regular cleaning of a hospital’s ventilation system is essential for maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for staff and patients and can help to reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections, explains Steve Liddiard, managing director of System Hygienics

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Improving hand hygiene compliance in hospitals will lead to better outcomes for patients, and help to prevent HAIs, says Suzanne De Maine, European marketing manager for GOJO Europe

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Savvas Othon, technical director of Rentokil offers some tips on implementing a pest prevention strategy in a hospital environment.

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When equipping a hospital washroom, care must be taken to avoid cross contamination between patients while also making the facilities easy to access for people who are frail or ill. And on a tight budget, this can be a major challenge. SCA's Julie Ray looks at the best types of systems to use in a hygienecritical healthcare washroom

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Fighting infection and creating spotless hospitals, wards, doctors' surgeries and departments is top of our agenda.

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A combination of Seko technology and advanced electronic design has enabled Seko to offer a wide range of automatic systems for a variety of dosing applications.

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The importance of using products and methods that minimise adverse impacts on health and the environment grows stronger every day.

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The Sirius brand offers a wide range of quality products including toilet paper, centre feed rolls, industrial wiper roll, paper towels, hygiene rolls and dispenser toilet rolls for away-from-home washrooms, healthcare, food service and industry.

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TracLogik allows you to track anything you choose, via the internet, right out of the box.

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FoneLogik is an incredibly easy to use time and attendance system that can be deployed to any site in seconds.

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ScanLogik wall mounted units are perfect for quickly and easily recording staff time and attendance at larger sites.

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Our award-winning Mobile App is designed to provide your site managers and supervisors with up to date Site, Contract and Staff information and to enable them to carry out their tasks and update relevant data without having to return to the office to use a computer.

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The ‘Who-Where-When and What’ of site management. Our Site Manager application is highly functional, having been continuously developed over a number of years.

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Our user friendly range of battery and mains powered automatic drain dosing systems are perfectly designed for enzyme dosing which break down grease and bacteria from grease traps and drains, eliminating smells and blockages that can be unpleasant, inconvenient and costly.

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CleanLink’s latest state of the art web-hosted work scheduling and site auditing application. CleanLink Site Master is designed as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for companies to quickly set up new clients & contracts, plan and manage their site-based work, and design and use online forms to capture data.

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The TimeAttend Cloud is a secure website which gives you instant access to all the reports and time and attendance information that you could possibly need, straight from your desktop, tablet or mobile device.

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Seko offers a broad range of dilution products and spray systems.

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CleanLink’s new state of the art Portal hosted service gives you a secure, easy to use platform to manage and share documents & files with your Clients and Staff via the web.

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