Discussion Group: A cleaner environment means cleaner hands: enhanced cleaner of the near patient environment reduces bacterial load both in the bed area and on the hands of staff
The project drew together several streams of healthcare research at UCLH, namely reduction of MRSA transmission, the antibacterial performance of micro fibre cleaning technology, and the strategic challenges to its use in the clinical environment.
The primary aim was to combine the practical and strategic conclusions prompted by these research streams, roll them out in a clinical ICU environment, and measure their impact on both environmental contamination and healthcare-associated infection.
The secondary aim was to analyse the impact (if any) of such (bacterial) environmental control on hospital acquired infection.
The first stage of this project is now complete and this group will discuss the findings and their implications The next stage should be a trial showing the effect on patient infections but is this practicable?