Infection control
plumbed areas for controlling infection outbreaks or for supporting areas, such as reception halls, that have no access to washrooms.
The range of sinks developed by Teal can cope with the requirements of different patient and residential care environments, all designed for ease of use.4
Conclusion
Having portable sinks, as part of the care package available in a care home, can offer reassurance to residents and family members that managers are thinking ahead and most importantly having a strategy to minimise the risks of infection to their residents.
They can potentially help support residents who may have to be isolated by giving support staff easy access to safe, temperature controlled warm water right where it is needed.
They are cost-effective, they can be kept as flexible support equipment, ordered and on-hand to use when needed. Easy to set up and can be placed anywhere.
With staff moving from one care home site to another, the sinks can be positioned close to entrance areas allowing easy to use hand washing as they arrive and when they leave.
Just as important they can provide an infection barrier for residents and visitors providing direct access to regular, soap and water hand washing, helping safeguard the health of everyone in the building.
References 1. BBC, Is a 20-second handwash enough to kill Covid-19?, 2020.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/ 20200818-covid-19-has-handwashing- been-forgotten?
2. UK Department of Health and Social Care/Public Health England, Care Homes: infection prevention and control, 2013.
https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/infection-prevention-and- control-in-care-homes-information- resource-published
3. UK Department of Health and Social Care/Public Health England, Admission and care of residents in a care home during Covid-19, 2020.
https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/coronavirus-covid-19- admission-and-care-of-people-in-care- homes/coronavirus-covid-19-admission- and-care-of-people-in-care-homes
4. Teal, Mobile hand washing units for medical and healthcare environments.
https://www.tealwash.com/medical-and- healthcare/
TCHE
Chris Whieldon
Chris Whieldon is sales director at Teal Patents, which specialises in designing and developing portable hot water sinks and basins and has been supplying them since 1959. Currently Teal produces over 12,000 units per annum for every type of application. Teal’s production facility is situated in the heart of England, with international air, road and rail links close at hand.
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