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

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