HOSPITAL CLEANING
Donna Brown
The study will seek to highlight the impact of behaviours in reducing the risk of spreading infection in healthcare.
meaningful data. Once the results are complete, we at ISS will be working on sharing our findings with our customers, and a white paper is expected to provide the wider industry with the outcomes.
Trialling in uncertain times The project is currently being carried out under COVID-19 conditions, but it is hoped that some of these restrictions will start to be eased as the pandemic reduces. Collecting sufficient trail data is essential. It is important that the team engages with all the various stakeholders, and ensures that all their expectations are met; equally, success will be dependent on full cooperation from everyone involved – the Royal Derby Hospital is always keen to be at the cutting edge of innovation, and this project – with the support of the senior management team – will be no different.
Leading research and development on the efficacy of the cleaning process in hospitals reflects ISS’s belief in
providing places that ‘Work, Think, Give, and ultimately Care’. We will continue to highlight the critical impact that behaviour has on cleanliness outcomes, while driving environmentally sustainable cleaning solutions in healthcare. It is the aim of the business to transform its healthcare cleaners into environmental placemakers.
Currently there is little direct evidence available to measure the effectiveness of cleaning outcomes, as it has never been afforded scientific status. In support of the Standards, this project will use science to demonstrate not just being visibly clean, but clinically clean. ISS continues to work closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement in the implementation phases of the recently published National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021. The company has a purpose of connecting people and places to make the world (or in this case the NHS) work better. This project will provide a significant contribution.
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October 2021 Health Estate Journal 79
Donna Brown, managing director at ISS Healthcare, has over 36 years’ experience of working in healthcare, having joined the NHS as a management trainee in 1985, leading to her first role as assistant Domestic Services manager. For the past 31 years she has worked for ISS in operations and business development, most recently as Divisional director and Strategic lead for healthcare cleaning and logistics services. She played an instrumental role in CERO (Country Emergency Response Organisation) to inform and manage ISS’s response to the pandemic, has played an active part in the development of the new National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 since the outset, and continues to be part of the NHS Improvement team and a standards guardian. She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), which led to the publication of an ISS White Paper on Employee Engagement, and her becoming a guest lecturer at Kingston University on its Master’s degree in Healthcare Leadership.
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