INFECTION CONTROL
University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky, underlined the value of healthcare spaces themselves, when she said: “We need to look at hospitals and aged care facilities as a ‘patient’ that requires a cohesive and interdependent team to care for it.”
A collective effort
From manufacturers to nurses, and architects to cleaning staff, caring for healthcare estates, and recognising their value in preventing the spread of infection, must be a collective effort. The infection control needs of frontline staff providing care must always be at the heart of this. As illustrated by that seventh RCN principle, nurses want to be directly involved in the momentum we’re seeing in efforts to future-proof for infection control.
Last year’s launch of NHSX shows there is already a growing focus on the role of digital. I think further advancement here could result in greater sharing and collaboration across the estate, but also across different sectors too – transferring learnings from other commercial sectors into healthcare, and vice versa. Early reflections on how the crisis has played out suggest that modern society, and the way we interact, travel, and use public spaces, help create the perfect conditions for a pandemic. We’ve all seen
Stuart Skinner
Stuart Skinner is a senior Product manager at leading water controls manufacturer, Rada. He has 29 years’ experience working in the water controls industry for Kohler Mira, and recently re-joined Rada after leading sister company, Mira Showers’ national sales team. In his role as senior Product manager, he is focused on ensuring that, through its specialist products and services, Rada can help healthcare professionals realise their aims of improving infection control and optimising the operation and safety of their water systems. He is also helping to lead Rada’s work in ‘unlocking new benefits for healthcare professionals’ through a new generation of digital and ‘connected’ water controls.
that in just how drastically we have had to adapt our lives to help stem the spread of COVID-19, and to lessen the impact the virus could have had on our healthcare infrastructure.
It’s not surprising, then, that conversations around re-thinking the fabric of our built environment to enhance infection control are happening within commercial sectors too. It’s up
to healthcare and its critical partners to lead by example.
It’s vital that the dialogue and continued drive towards better infection control outcomes we’ve started continues across the supply chain and healthcare estates. Our collective focus must be on ensuring that the very fabric of healthcare estates is doing everything it can to keep people safe, whatever the future brings.hej
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