Cleaning Standards Monitoring

A clean hospital environment is essential for the health and well being of patients, staff and visitors. Effective cleaning monitoring is crucial to ensure that the required cleaning takes place, which is vital in maintaining a healthy and safe hospital environment, and contributes significantly to the quality of patient care. However, there has been increasing concern that standards of cleanliness have been falling across the health service in the UK and internationally. As pressures to improve efficiency in health provision increase, the risk of short cuts in cleaning service delivery rise. The key to minimising this risk is the provision of an effective compliance management / audit solution for cleaning monitoring. Innovise is the leader in this field.

• Risk of Infection: research has shown that poor cleanliness contributes to infection and prolonged patient stays, significantly reducing the quality and efficiency of patient care.
  
  
• Positive Environment:  effective hospital cleaning helps to provide a socially acceptable environment that patients, staff and visitors expect. Stained, dusty and soiled surroundings produce an unattractive environment whilst a clean environment is more likely to be treated with respect by those who use the hospital.
  
  
• Lower Maintenance Costs: effective hospital cleaning will also preserve the life of fabric and furnishings that naturally become ingrained with dust and dirt. Neglect and excessive soiling will invariably cause the deterioration of walls, floors, carpets, beds, chairs, curtains and other surfaces. Regular cleaning using the correct methods and materials will help to prevent damage.

• Cost of collection: auditing quality in cleaning environments is a time consuming process using a paper based system. Servicetrac Audit compliance software is a fully electronic solution which has been shown to reduce ongoing data collection and collation time by 90% versus paper auditing solutions.
  
  
• Actionable data: collecting compliance audit information is useless if it cannot be presented in an effective and actionable format. Servicetrac Audit incorporates the relevant cleaning standards used within the UK as well as a wide range of management reports for the effective monitoring and analysis of performance trends and points of failure and risk.
  
  
• Consistent collection: manual systems are prone to inconsistency and interpretation whereas Servicetrac Audit compliance software allows consistent standards to be configured into the software and applied each and every time an audit takes place.