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Health Centre Cleaning

Healthcare Cleaning

"A waiting room full of potentially ill people obviously carries a high risk area for bacteria and viruses to spread. This is without even considering the consultation rooms where patients come and go throughout the day. As a result, it’s clear that a professional and reliable cleaning service is essential to keep your doctors surgery hygienic and safe.
This is essential to ensure that staff, patients and other visitors are being kept as safe as possible when visiting."

GP Surgery Cleaning
Medical centres such as doctors surgeries in England fall under the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) ongoing compliance monitoring system. Part of this compliance monitoring process relates to cleanliness and infection control within your practice.

The CQC regulations around cleaning have four main aims:
Doctors Surgery Cleaning requires skill and knowledge to be done correctly and well, every time.

To provide a good framework that will allow doctors surgery cleaning services to be arranged effectively and efficiently.

To make sure that the appropriate documentation is being provided that proves how medical processes are being managed, to include cleaning schedules, risk assessments, method statement and COSHH data sheets.

To emphasise that doctors surgery cleaning is a shared responsibility that does not just involve the cleaning team. It is a process that must be completed on an ongoing basis throughout the day.

To assist providers in making sure that risks for infection are reduced significantly during the delivery of services

Out of hours audits and inspections ensure that a high standard of cleanliness is consistently maintained.
Many medical centres require an out of hours cleaning service. At APL Cleaning Limited we operate 24/7 and we can be flexible and clean at a time that suits you, the staff and your patients.
At APL Cleaning, our exceptional cleaning standards from our highly trained cleaning operatives ensure the surgery is thoroughly cleaned as needed.
Our cleaners are local to your premises, dedicated to your venue to ensure personal pride is taken.

Infection Control
Good infection prevention (including cleanliness) in doctors surgery cleaning as advised by the CQC is essential to ensure that people who use health and social care services receive safe and effective care. Effective prevention and control of infection must be part of everyday practice and be applied consistently by everyone.
A waiting room full of potentially ill people obviously carries a high risk area for bacteria and viruses to spread. This is without even considering the consultation rooms where patients come and go throughout the day. As a result, it’s clear that a professional and reliable cleaning service is essential to keep your doctors surgery hygienic and safe.
This is essential to ensure that staff, patients and other visitors are being kept as safe as possible when visiting.

At APL Cleaning Limited, infection control is our top priority and our team have many years of experience in knowing exactly how a doctors surgery should be cleaned to ensure high levels of cleanliness throughout the building, day after day, clean after clean.

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What to expect
How to ensure professional doctors surgery cleaning is completed at your practice. The easiest way to ensure your practice is cleaned to the highest standard every day is to engage the services of a cleaning company experienced in the healthcare cleaning cleaning.
There are many benefits to outsourcing your doctors surgery cleaning to a commercial cleaning company.
If you decide to keep your doctors surgery cleaning in-house, it is essential that you have a detailed cleaning schedule. This will ensure that those responsible for the cleaning of the practice know exactly what is expected of them, and makes the expectations very clear from the outset.
The schedule should detail all rooms and areas of your surgery, and every single cleaning task to be completed in that area. The schedule should also detail the frequency of the cleaning - e.g sanitise all desks daily, or high dust weekly, for example.
In the healthcare cleaning sector, nothing short of perfection will do. Daily sanitisation throughout the practice is essential to keep staff and visitor safe, with many visiting when their immune system is already low.
Selection of the correct cleaning products and equipment is key, and cleaning should be completed in a thorough and methodical way, following the cleaning specification.
Areas that could easily be missed such as light switches, door handles and other high touch points require extra attention.
Floors should be cleaned thoroughly using a suitable disinfectant, desks and chairs cleaned daily, and bins emptied daily also. When you think of all the tasks that require cleaning and different frequencies, a cleaning schedule for your practice is likely to run over many pages if done correctly.
Patient and staff toilets require extra attention to ensure full sanitisation and safety for all visitors when undertaking surgery cleaning.

Colour coding at a Doctors Surgery

Every part of cleaning a doctors surgery should be considered, the measures needed to minimise any risk of cross contamination.
Colour coding is in its most simple form, the use of different coloured cloths, mops and buckets to prevent the spreading of germs. Industry standard colours are common, and normally as follows:

red - for bathrooms
green - for kitchens
blue - for general low risk areas such as offices and waiting rooms
yellow – for clinical and decontamination areas.

Colour coding is essential to keep all areas of your practice as safe as possible. If you have a cleaning company currently, have a look in your cleaning cupboard. Are all four coloured options present, or are they cutting corners and pinching the pennies with just a couple of colours? If this is the case, it is certainly time to look for a new cleaning contractor.

Employee Training

We train each employee to clean and work effectively and efficiently following Health and Safety and COSHH Guidelines.
Each team member is trained on how to use colour coded equipment to avoid any cross contamination issues.