Nurses Encourage Cleaning, to Help Prevent the Spread of C-Difficile

October 2, 2008 Posted by Administrator in : Cleaning News, News, Total Clean Services , add a comment

Hospital patients and visitors have been targeted as part of a campaign to reduce the number of cases of C difficile.

As part of the disease’s awareness week at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, banners have been placed around St Luke’s Hospital to raise the profile of the bacteria that causes diarrhoea, abdominal pain and fever.

Infection control nurses manned stalls to give advice to patients, visitors and staff about what they could do to stop the bug in its tracks.

Clinical nurse specialist in infection control, Alison Hunt, said: ‘Patients should make sure they wash their hands with soap and water after they have been to the toilet and before all meals.’

‘They should also make sure their visitors do the same as well as washing their hands before and after visiting the ward.’

‘Visitors should not visit if they have diarrhoea themselves.’

It is part of the trust’s hospital hygiene turnaround programme aimed at reducing the number of hospital-acquired infections.

The Price of Keeping our Properties Clean!

September 24, 2008 Posted by Administrator in : Cleaning News, News, Office Cleaning, Total Clean Services , add a comment

An article The Guardian informs us that our cleaning services are at the same price as 5 years ago in 2003, and it also serves up some interesting facts about our cleaning habits.

Dusting, washing, ironing, disinfecting and general tidying up – keeping a property clean means waging an endless battle against grime.

According to the UK 2000 Time Use Survey from the Office of National Statistics, women spend on average 21 hours a week on household chores, with men coming in at just over 11.5 hours a week.

The survey estimates the value of this work at £700 billion a year for the UK and, with just over 24 million households that works out at a staggering £576 a week.

However, if you’re going to pay other people to clean your house, you probably won’t ask them to turn up for three hours a day – two to three hours a week is more likely.

Cleaners will carry out most general chores except laundry. However, a service operating predominantly in North London but which has plans to go city-wide will collect your laundry and return it after either ironing it, or washing and ironing it.

Window-cleaning is also usually excluded from weekly domestic services – if it isn’t, expect to pay from £5 to £20 to have all the outsides of your windows cleaned, depending on where you live.

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