Cleaning Standards Monitoring
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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 solution for cleaning monitoring. Innovise is the leader in this field.
Why is a clean hospital so important?
- Risk of Infection: research has shown that poor cleanliness contributes to infection and prolonged patient stays, significantly reducing the quality and efficiency of patien 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.
Why is cleaning quality monitoring software so important?
- Cost of collection: auditing quality in cleaning environments is a time consuming process using a paper based system. Audittrac 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 audit information is useless if it cannot be presented in an effective and actionable format. Audittrac 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 Audittrac allows consistent standards to be configured into the software and applied each and every time an audit takes place.
Audittrac is the leading solution in the UK and is growing quickly in other markets internationally. Contact Us today using the buttons on the left for more information.
