Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals
National Initiatives

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AHCP members are involved in an ongoing process in many National Initiatives, including joint work with the National Patient safety Agency on the revised Cleaning Manual and the revised National Specifications (which are assessed as part of Core Standard C21)

Additionally, members sat on the NPSA working party for Colour Coding and an ADM Team wrote guidance for microfibre cleaning systems

We have been asked for our involvement in the Cleancare Programme

Through this open access page all readers can download the following workstreams/reports:-

Code of practice for the prevention and control of healthcare associated infection - Published 11 January 2008

The Health Act gives the Secretary of State the powers to issue a code of practice for the prevention and control of healthcare associated infection (HCAI). The purpose of this code of practice is to help NHS bodies plan and implement how they can prevent and control HCAI. It sets out criteria by which managers of NHS organisations and other health care providers should ensure that patients are cared for in a clean environment, where the risk of HCAI is kept as low as possible. The Healthcare Commission will be using this code to assess NHS performance and similar requirements will be introduced for the private and voluntary healthcare sector and care homes. Download code of practice from here

Click here to read the June 2006 newly published Report on the Second National Acute Hospitals Hygiene Audit Commissioned by the National Hospitals Office Health Service Executive (Ireland) and reproduced here by permission of Susan Robinson, AHCP member and Director, Desford Consultancy Limited

Web Hosting a Cleaning Standards System using the Property Appraisal System

Members and other visitors to AHCP pages may be interested to link with this case study. Click here for a pdf copy.

Microfibre

Microfibre

Minimum Frequency

Minimum Frequency - Recommended “Activity” Related Minimum Cleaning Frequencies

HCAI Technology Forum and Knowledge Network

This Study Day, held on 20th November in London, was free to AHCP members, over 100 of whom attended to take part in discussions on

• Current government cleaning initiatives.
• Understanding potential future good practice from an infection control / research perspective
• Round table discussion on identifying future technologies that could help us with our day to day cleaning and maybe reduce some HCAI.

Presentations from the NHS Knowledge Day held in London on 20th November 2007

Simple Soaps and NHS Infection Control Challenges

A literature review of potential sources of microbiological contamination of hand cleansing products and recommendations for risk reduction
This document is available to members only. Members access