Hospital dispenses with gel on entry
GEL dispensers are to be removed from all entrances atMaid- stone Hospital. Dr Sara Mumford, director of infection prevention and con-
trol at Maidstone and Tunbridge NHS Trust, said the deci- sion was made after research suggested that good hand hygiene at the patient’s bedside (or point of care) is the best way of preventing infection. She added: “The gel dispensers at the entrances to our hos-
pitals have been used well by staff, patients and visitors alike. However, we have found that they can distract people from using the gel at the bedside. So we are going to remove the gel from the entrances to our hospitals and focus hand hygiene where it will do most good and that is in the clini- cal areas and at the patient’s bedside. “For several years we have ensured that there is hand cleaning gel at the foot of every bed and that there are gels and wash hand basins easily available in clinical areas so that they are as close as possible to the patient.” There are over 300 gel dispensers at Maidstone Hospital.
Staff, patients and visitors will find the gels in the following areas: Attached to the bottom of
each bed At the entrance to all wards
and departments, including clinics, arrival lounge, discharge lounge, X-ray and therapies Outside food outlets and
shops Where people wait – eg by a
lift Work is ongoing to improve
the number of hand wash basins and there will be an increase in the number of signs and mes- sages about the importance of hand hygiene.
‘Surreal’ skydive to fund Trust
A MAIDSTONE charity’s chief ex- ecutive and a colleague did a sky- dive to raise much-needed funds. Jan Prior described the tandem jump at Headcorn as "surreal"
APLANNINGapplication has been sub- mitted to build a first- floor extension to create eight new self-contained bed- rooms at Mont Calm Residential Home in 74 Bower Mount Road, Maidstone. According to applicant Michael Lisis’ design statement: “With the increasing demands being placed on residential care homes there is a need to provide additional bed spaces and using exist- ing facilities is the most economical so- lution in terms of the use of sites. “This particular site benefits from a relatively large plot of land but over the
Residential home plans for more bedroom space
years successive extensions and alter- ations have led to an uneconomical use of the space available. In particular the single-storey rear extension, which is the subject of this application, is an ideal area to create additional usable floor space at first-floor level. “The extra rooms have an impact on
the amount of day space required so the existing day space is extended to the rear of the existing kitchen area. “The actual increased floor space is
249 sq m including the bedrooms, day space and circulation space.”
while John Forrester, a baker at the Blackthorn Trust, enjoyed it so much he said he would happily do it again. Anyonewishing to support their hair-raising exploits can go to
www.virgin-
moneygiving.com or by sending a cheque payable to Blackthorn Trust at St Andrews Road, ME16 9AN. Blackthorn Garden
and Cafe is a social en- terprise raising funds to help support the work of the charity, which offers medical care, specialist thera- pies and rehabilitation through work place- ments.
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