Monitor Cleaning and Hygiene Standards using TS+ Environmental Hygiene Auditing System

NICE Quality improvement statement 5: Environmental cleanliness

Using Medical Audits TS+ cleaning audit software you can maintain and improve your standards of environmental cleanliness beyond current national guidance.


What does this mean for: people visiting or receiving treatment in hospitals?

  • Medical Audits Cleaning Audit Tool can help you ensure that visitors, staff and patients can experience the high standards of cleanliness we all expect from primary and secondary care settings.

What does it mean for trust boards?

  • NICE recommend that “Boards ensure policies, procedures and resources are in place to maintain and continuously raise the level of cleanliness across the trust”
  • TS+ cleaning compliance software provides the capability for monitoring the polices and procedures and the effectiveness of the resources deployed to ensure a high standard of cleanliness.

Manage Cleaning Resources Effectively and Efficiently using Medical Audits bespoke designed cleaning audit tool

  • Audit cleaning against CQC & HIQA standards
  • Monitor progress towards targets
  • Identify areas for targeted deep cleaning
  • Target audits to specific locations
  • Comply with NCS 2007 & PAS 5748
  • Assign your staff based on needs analysis


TS+ Cleaning Audit software helps you provide Evidence of achievement.

  • With TS+ Cleaning Audit Tool from Medical Audits you have the evidence that that you adhere high standards of cleanliness and hygiene – not only to meet but to go beyond current national guidance (for example, British Standards Institution PAS 5748 and/or National Patient Safety Agency specifications).
  • Evidence that you take into account the needs of different patient care areas and allow for flexibility in the deployment of resources.
  • Risk-based cleaning for each patient care area.
  • TS+ is THE cleaning audit software system, it provides an adaptable framework for routine and outbreak monitoring of environmental cleanliness.
  • Patient audits can be carried out using our easy data capture system.

Our audit systems provide a range of cleaning audit tools, cleaning audit software and enviromental hygiene auditing system to meet all your health care cleaning audit needs.

  • Audit environmental cleaning standards
  • Record room by room compliance with our cleaning audit tool
  • Check compliance against all relevant standards
  • Use our cleaning audit tool to carry out senior management walkabout audits
  • Monitor tidiness and storage on corridors, walkways and stairwells
  • Audit procedure rooms, patient areas and non patient areas
  • Flexible auditing and reporting design with our cleaning audit tool


TS+ Medical Audits Software Systems have a range of cleaning audit tools to help record practical examples of your compliance with standards

  • Cleaning initiated with records of length of time from opening to closure of non-conformances raised.
  • Collect and embed visual environmental monitoring data for different clinical areas.
  • Powerful data analysis to help you use findings to initiate improvements to your cleanliness programme.

Monitor Compliance With Cleaning Standards in NHS Wales With Medical Audits TS+ Cleaning Audit Software

  • The National cleaning standards for wales were published in 2003 and were followed in 2008 by the Welsh assembly national all wales monitoring tool.

Monitor Compliance With Cleaning Standards In NHS Scotland With Medical Audits TS+ Cleaning Audit Tools

  • “Audit Scotland - A clean bill of health”, published in 2000 set the basis for cleaning, auditing and monitoring standards of hospital hygiene in NHS Scotland.
  • This was followed by the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS)/Clinical Standards Board for Scotland (CSBS) HAI Infection Control Standards (December 2001) and Cleaning Services Standards (June 2002);

Monitor Compliance With Irish Cleaning Standards With Medical Audits TS+ Range of Healthcare Audit Tools

  • In Ireland, the National Hospitals office produced a national cleaning manual in 2008 and this remains the National standard along with the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Infection Prevention and Control Standards (2010).

Monitor Cleaning Standards And Audit Effectiveness Of Cleaning Using TS+ Cleaning Audit Software From Medical Audits

  • Medical Audits provide a cleaning audit and a range of complimentary audits to help you evidence compliance with all these standards, guidelines and regulations.

Comprehensive Auditing System

  • Monitoring of equipment cleanliness
  • Environmental hygiene
  • Departmental Waste audit
  • Linen management
  • Sharps management wide
  • Hand wash facilities audit


Monitor compliance with National Cleaning standards (2009) PAS 5748 - Click Here To Read More...

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