HEALTHCARE & HOSPITAL HYGIENE
C&M
New cleaning strategy supports patient recovery and healthcare safety ISS Healthcare has commissioned a project that
Collaborative approach
for our industry, but will also lead to a positive
will take a scientific and behavioural approach
The successful delivery of this project centres
step forward in healthcare cleaning for everyone.
to healthcare cleaning. ISS worked closely with
on a collaborative approach with the NHS, and
We will be delighted for other collaborators to
NHS England and NHS Improvement in the
in particular the hospital ISS’s research and
come on board.”
development of the recently published National
development team are working with. Donna
Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021. In
Brown, managing director, ISS Healthcare,
project are welcomed from organisations across
support of the standards, the new ISS healthcare
said: “The ISS strategic ambition centres on an
the cleaning and healthcare sphere. Please
strategy is based on using science to validate
innovative project, a scientific and behavioural
contact: enquiries@uk.issworld.com.
the cleaning process which will in turn build
approach to cleaning which is not only pioneering
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confidence throughout the NHS, support shorter patient stays and ultimately provide a safe clinical environment to help save lives, not just during the COVID pandemic but beyond. Collette Sweeney, head of healthcare cleaning at ISS, said: “The application of cleaning science and the impact of behaviour is intrinsically linked to environmental infection control. The purpose of the project is to use science to determine the efficacy and appropriateness of the healthcare cleaning process to deliver evidence-based safe systems of cleaning.”
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