Medical Audits National cleaning standards audit tool has been updated to ensure hospitals and healthcare settings can audit to the new healthcare cleanliness standards as laid out in the new National standards for healthcare cleanliness, 2021.
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Audit the new Efficacy Standards required by the Healthcare Cleanliness standards.
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You can continue to evidence your compliance with regulation 12 of the Health and Social Care Act (2008) and CQC outcome standard Regulation 15 key criteria (1 and 2) in the Health and Social Care Act Code of Practice 2015.
Using Medical Audits cleanliness audit for healthcare you can:-
✔ Audit National cleanliness standards compliance
✔ Audit hospital Cleaning standards by room
✔ Audit cleanliness of each healthcare element
✔ Record cleanliness of patient equipment
✔ Audit compliance by responsible person
✔ Provide immediate feedback
✔ Produce reports and charts and dashboards in real time
Auditing the latest cleaning standards 2021
The new National standards for cleanliness in healthcare require hospitals and healthcare facilities to commit to a new Cleanliness Charter that promotes a consistent high standard of cleanliness.
Each healthcare facility is required to categorise their departments using new risk categories that are dependent on the function of the area.
These risk categories then dictate the cleaning frequencies for each functional area.
Each functional area is then required to display a star rating based on the cleanliness of the whole department.
Medical Audits Healthcare Cleanliness audit software has been updated to support organisations in meeting these new requirements
✔ Audit compliance by all 6 new Functional Area Risk Ratings as detailed in the National standards for Cleanliness in Healthcare
✔ Produce automated star rated certificates of cleanliness to display at department level
Monitor cleaning standards and Audit effectiveness of Cleaning in Healthcare using cleaning audit software from Medical Audits
The National standards of healthcare cleanliness 2021 were developed by a collaboration that included:
- NHS Improvement
- Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals
- NHS estates and facilities professionals
- Health and Safety Executive
These new standards for cleanliness are applicable to all areas of healthcare encompassing both acute and non acute settings.
They replace the previous Patient Safety Agency National specifications for cleanliness in the NHS which were launched in 2007 and the more recent PAS5748 cleaning standards.