Transcript National Hospital Cleaning Campaign

A National Hospital Cleaning
Campaign
Lesley Shepherd, Nurse Consultant, HPS/HIS
Background
• Cabinet Secretary and CNO ask
• Response to issues raised within HEI
inspections
• Recurring themes around equipment and
environmental cleaning
• Reassurance that systems and processes
were in place
The task.....
• Request from CNO around immediate and
long term actions;
• Establishing what needs to happen and
what’s currently in place
• Embedding changes into existing work
streams
• Achieving reliable, sustained change
The ask
• Immediate – CNMs to be more visible –
national uniform
• Short-term – National Hospital Cleaning
Campaign – options
• Medium-term – Combined national review
of National IPC Manual
• Longer-term – alternative approaches to
cleaning, time to clean, roles and
responsibilities
Previous SICPs Campaign
• Insight gathering
• Focus groups – nursing, medical, AHP
• SICPs implicit and understood with
nursing staff
• Hand hygiene, PPE, Occ. Exposure front of mind
• Cleaning – back of mind, not my
responsibility
The Campaign
• Zero tolerance, public and professional
facing
• To be delivered by March 2016
• Focus on what public should expect to
find plus
• Responsibilities of professionals in terms
of cleaning
• Joint working
The Campaign
• Supportive for frontline staff
• Involvement of frontline staff and
patients
• Focus groups
• Needs to integrate into existing
strands of work
Progress to date
• Commitment from CNO
• Short life working group established
• Representation from stakeholder
groups – ICMs, IPS, AHCP, facilities
• Inviting frontline staff
Next steps......
• Finalise funding
• Recruitment of advertising agency
• Formulation of a media sub group
– Frontline staff
– Health Scotland
– Scottish Government
– HPS
– Public Partners
Any Questions?