SLUICE ROOM EFFICIENCY
Featuring enhanced chemical dosing, powerful antimicrobial surfaces, and fully hands-free operation, the Pulpmatic Eco+ is claimed by DDC to be ‘the most environmentally friendly, economical, and hygienic macerator on the market’.
Helping to prevent HCAIs Getting better performance from sluice room equipment is an obvious way to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). It reduces infection- related bed blocking, freeing up vital bedspace, and enabling more patients to be treated more quickly – improving patient outcomes and reducing waiting lists.
Improving sluice room machines’
performance also reduces operating costs and improves return on investment – enabling funds to be redirected to other pressing projects. Without the right machine auditing and review information, these improvements are less likely to happen. Intelligence and data are at the heart of the solution: knowledge is power. Ideally, all equipment should be detailed in an asset review outlining the precise location, condition, maintenance history,
DDC Dolphin’s nine-bladed Pulpmatic Ultima is the company’s largest capacity bedpan macerator, and is capable of disposing of up to six pulp items per cycle.
and requirements, of each machine. The whole report should then be summarised for an easy, at-a-glance view of all the Trust’s sluice room assets and their performance.
Not enough detail supplied Something this fundamental sounds simple enough – but in reality, few sluice room equipment manufacturers supply this information in anywhere near the level of detail required. Nor do they provide a whole-of-estate report that covers every machine used by a hospital, regardless of its manufacturer. This is because sluice room equipment is such a specialised area of manufacturing. Of the few companies operating within this important area of healthcare, only one (us at DDC Dolphin) is capable of repairing and maintaining all suppliers’ equipment, and providing the detailed level of
auditing and reporting that FM managers require on a daily basis.
A detailed Asset Report A typical DDC Dolphin monthly Asset Report will include line after line of detailed information about every single medical pulp macerator and bedpan washer-disinfector in the hospital(s). Extensive detail about the performance and condition of scores of machines can be summarised in just half a dozen pages. Information is conveyed in an easy, at-a- glance format. A typical Asset Summary Review will include the: n total number of sluice room assets. n number of DDC Dolphin machines within the facilities.
n number of machines on service contracts.
n number of machines by type. n number of machines under warranty. A condition summary will highlight the number of machines that are: n brand new to three years’ old. n four to six years’ old. n seven years’ old or more. n 10+ years’ old.
It will also detail the number and value
of any outstanding repairs, along with numbers of call-outs, parts fit visits, and services. Below this summary appears an even more detailed asset review. This spreadsheet lists the following information for each individual machine: n account. n make, model, and serial number. n delivery date. n machine condition (on a scale of 1 to 10). n last case date – when the machine was last seen.
n contract end date. n outstanding repair quotes. n call-outs (over the past three years). n total spend (over the past three years). The bottom line totals the outstanding
DDC Dolphin stresses the importance of using high-quality consumables, such as disinfectant and scale inhibitor, in its machines.
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repair quotes plus the number of call-outs and total spend over the last three years.
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