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Scottish Executive, Chief Medical Officer, Consultation
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| On Aug 5 2003 2:59PM neil.wigglesworth wrote: |
See message below, the document can be found on the web site - go to the discussion board page, find this message and click the paperclip icon alongside.
Neil
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER�S TASK FORCE ON HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED
INFECTION
CONSULTATION DOCUMENT ON THE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
CLEANING PROCESSES TO BE USED IN NHS SPECIFICATIONS FOR CLEANING
SERVICES
I am writing to seek your views on a piece of work which is important for individual NHS bodies in
Scotland and for the NHS as a whole � a consultation document setting out a proposed cleaning
specification for healthcare premises across the NHS in Scotland.
Healthcare associated infection (HAI) is a priority issue for NHSScotland. The profile of prevention
and control of HAIs has been transformed within the past few years in Scotland - significant
milestones specifically relating to cleaning include, �A Clean Bill of Health? A review of domestic
services in Scottish Hospitals�, Audit Scotland (April 2000); the NHSQIS/CSBS HAI: Cleaning
Services Standards (June 2002); the Ministerial HAI Action Plan, �Preventing infections acquired
while receiving health care� (October 2002); the Audit Scotland review of cleaning services and
NHSQIS review of HAI: Infection Control Standards (both published January 2003).
A major programme of work to improve the prevention and control of HAI across the NHS in
Scotland was laid out in the Scottish Executive Health Department�s Ministerial Action Plan on HAI.
This programme is now being actioned by the Scottish HAI Task Force, of which I am the chair.
The HAI Task Force is both overseeing existing work in progress and commissioning several new
working groups to address the many tasks specified in the Action Plan. One of the immediate
priorities is the development of updated technical requirements for rigorous and effective cleaning
processes to be used in NHS specifications for cleaning services.
The enclosed consultation document (see http://www.scotland.gov.uk/views/views.asp) has been
developed by an HAI Task Force multidisciplinary working group under the chair of Heather Knox,
Director of Facilities, Ayrshire and Arran Primary Care NHS Trust. Following the consultation
which this letter launches, the working group will take account of all views expressed and will move
forward to finalise agreed national technical requirements for cleaning processes for use in NHS
specifications for cleaning services.
In the interim period before the technical requirements are finalised, the HAI Task Force
recommends that NHS bodies use the draft attached to this letter as interim guidance.
Cleaning services staff are an essential part of the multidisciplinary approach to increased public,
patient and staff safety. A key message from the HAI Task Force is that hygiene, particularly clean
hands and clean hospitals, is everyone�s responsibility, in the prevention and control of infection.
I would therefore welcome your organisation�s views on this consultation document. In particular, it
would be helpful if your response could be structured to answer the following questions: -
� The scope and content of this consultation document, in particular (a) the section on
staff training and development and (b) the section on performance management;
� The format and clarity of the document;
� The format of the final document;
� Whether there are any gaps in the information provided;
� The role of members of the public in monitoring the performance of cleaning services.
Please note that all responses to this consultation may be made public, unless a respondent requests
that their views be kept confidential.
Please submit your responses to Christopher Bergin, Secretariat, HAI Task Force, Room 2EN,
St Andrew�s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh, EH1 3DG, [email protected].
The consultation period will end on 5 September 2003.
Yours sincerely
DR E M ARMSTRONG |
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| On Sep 1 2003 11:46AM neil.wigglesworth wrote: |
Please note:
The closing date for this consultation will be the 28th October 2003 not the 2nd Sept as stated in the original message
Neil |
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