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Does anyone have audit tools for environmental audit for: in patient hospital wards and out-patient clinics? theatres? Candida and CPE screening PPE Hand hygiene Hospices I am keen to review our current ones which are quite long and time consuming. Thanks

Good morning, following on from a visit by the Health and Safety Authority to our hospital, I was requested to carry out an indoor air quality risk assessment on the basis of the document ‘Code of Practice for Indoor Air Quality’ (HSA, 2023). On the day, the inspector was very keen on the use of […]

The title is the excuse many medical staff give when challenged about Hand hygiene. The problem is that we may not plan to touch the patient, but end up touching curtains as they are pulled round the bed or contacting the patients environment. We are trying to get Staff members into the mindset of going […]