i+DCS was launched at Healthcare Ireland 23-24 April – the first major Exhibition and Seminar to be held in Dublin where visitors were able to see in action – ultrasonics, steam cleaning and microfiber. Live demonstrations involved hospital bed and equipment cleaning, and visitors were able to try out the processes for themselves.
i+DCS provided key supervisors and instructors to visit the renowned 2000 bed Sheffield NHS Teaching Hospital to train teams of in-house domestic and infection control staff in Intensive Deep Cleaning techniques and equipment. A full week of in depth training was completed culminating in the staff deep cleaning one of the hospitals’ wards to demonstrate the skills they learnt. Certificates of Excellence were presented to signify the training modules covered.
The new, specialised hospital and healthcare Deep Cleaning service i+DCS launched by City & Kent Cleaning only in March, has already made its television debut on BBC’s Panorama.
Panorama is the long-running and highly regarded investigative current affairs programme that recently looked at c. difficile in Britain’s hospitals. In the programme, reporter Sally Magnusson revealed how sloppy hygiene, understaffing and overcrowded wards contributed to the spread of the superbug.
Link to BBC website for more details
However, the programme also showed efforts being made by i+DCS to Deep Clean hospitals, an operation in which the service not only draws upon over 30 years experience cleaning in the healthcare environment, but also utilises the latest validated Dry Steam Vapour decontamination technology that has only recently become available.
Dry Steam Vapour decontaminates a variety of hospital surfaces and equipment, and is especially suited to ward deep cleans, especially of beds and the surrounding curtains, cleaning and sanitising hospital equipment such as trolleys, fans and wheelchairs, clinical cleaning of operating theatres, isolation and anaesthetic rooms, as well as public area cleaning such as washrooms.
The programme showed hospital bed frames undergoing Dry Steam Vapour decontamination, as well as the immersion of patient equipment, including commodes, into ultrasonic cleaning vats.
In addition (and not shown in the programme) i+DCS also provides air management of wards and isolation rooms, zone control matting, and microfibre – including in-house laundering of used cloths.
In June, those visiting the AHCP (Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals) conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire, will have an opportunity to learn more about this intensive approach to deep cleaning
If you would like more details of the intensive deep clean systems offered by The City & Kent Group, please click here