TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Digitising Systems
Confidential Reporting
IHEEM has been working very closely with QuiqSolutions to digitise papers and systems, as used within the Institute.
audit forms digitised and successfully trialled on a site. It must be emphasised that this tool is only for use by an AE(D) for confidential reporting. Along with this tool, a small group – including a trial set up in a South Wales hospital – has developed an evidence pre- audit tool for staff working in these units to collect and upload reports and results – for example of water tests. This should enable audits to be undertaken more smoothly, hopefully with less stress for all involved. It will also guide the users in understanding the reports and papers required for monitoring and electronically filing.
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led a team to review this work, and during 2023, we had the original AE(D)
REMINDER A summary of the guidance as issued for reference
The Policies and Principles section of Health Technical Memorandum 00, Best Practice Guidance for Healthcare Engineering, describes the structure and the core suite of nine subject areas for guidance, of which the HTM 01 suite refers to decontamination. Chapter 4 summarises the professional support and management structures required to implement the HTMs for the role of AE(D)s, with the roles and responsibilities of decontamination personnel set out in in HTM 01-01 Part A. (reference Guidance documents such as WHTMs in Wales and SHTMs in Scotland.)
A third audit monitoring tool has also been
developed by this group that any hospital or unit can use for evidence gathering; it enables users to collect reports and papers for the good management of the process. In combination, the three tools’ use together will improve standards across the service as a whole, and assist greatly in the management of each individual hospital department of hospital. QuiqSolutions launched the digitisation
processes at IHEEM’s 2023 Healthcare Estates conference in Manchester in October. It will probably require development, trials, and promotional seminars in the near future.
The system was developed in an easily
modifiable and form so that it can be improved following use and feedback – hopefully with the knowledge of this Board and / or the DTP. While the work of the AE(D) Registration
Board requires a constant focus, since the COVID pandemic we have struggled to get the work and meetings back on line. We are, however, striving to achieve this, and in doing so are keenly looking forward to developments of the framework with EWP, as well as inviting new candidates to enter the scheme, and hopefully improving standards all round.
Graham Stanton, who retired from the NHS in 2016 following 42 years’ service, started his engineering career in 1967 on joining the Merchant Navy as an Engineer Officer Cadet. Initially attending an officer training facility at Warsash near Southampton, he went on to have a rewarding service at sea, which he says ‘formed a very solid platform’ for his engineering career. He joined the NHS in 1974 in the mechanical design section of WHTSO (now NWSSP-SES), and
transferred to the Special Services section, where he worked in the sterilisation and decontamination field in various capacities, representing the Welsh Health Service on the formation of national guidance – both for Wales and the England’s Department of Health – until he retired. He also led audits for the Welsh Government, and was instrumental in setting up and chairing active decontamination groups in both Sterile Services and Endoscopy. He was an Authorised Person (Sterilisers) from 1995 to July 2008, when he became an
Authorising Engineer (Decontamination), and is still registered with IHEEM. Still invited to the All Wales Decontamination committee as an IHEEM advisor, he has represented the Wales IHEEM Branch on the Council, and currently chairs the IHEEM AE(D) Registration Board, having formerly chaired the IHEEM Decontamination Technology Platform. He also represents IHEEM on the Professional Bodies Group (DPECF) – a forum of representatives of the main decontamination institutes and bodies, and in 2021 become a committee member of the Central Sterilising Club.
18 Health Estate Journal January 2024
Graham Stanton IEng, FIHEEM, AE(D) IHEEM AE(D) Registration Board Chair
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