PRESS RELEASE

 ‘Deep clean’ of NHS hospitals
 

Today the Prime Minister announced a high profile new policy initiative that every NHS hospital is to be deep cleaned. The aim of the intervention is to ‘restore hospitals to their initial state of cleanliness to rid them of MRSA and Clostridium difficile.’ This deep clean is likely to be challenging for a number of reasons, including:

• Ward deep cleaning using liquid cleaning agents can take up to three days (Jeanes et al. J Hosp Infect 2005;61:85-86);
• Modern wards are often full of “high-touch”, complex electronic devices which are typically not compatible with liquid cleaning agents; and
• Conventional cleaning methods using liquid disinfectants do not rid surfaces of nosocomial pathogens (French et al. J Hosp Infect 2004;57:31-37). 

BIOQUELL’s hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) technology has been proven to kill MRSA, C. difficile and other nosocomial pathogens including glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE) and Acinetobacter on hospital surfaces. Furthermore, because HPV is a vapour-phase method, all surfaces in the ward - including hard-to-reach areas and sensitive electronic items - are decontaminated. The decontamination of an entire ward (confirmed using 6-log Geobacillus stearothermophilus biological indicators) using BIOQUELL’s HPV technology is complete in less than 12 hours (or 2 hours for a side room), after which the ward can resume normal operation because the only residues from HPV are water vapour and oxygen.
 
If you would like to discuss how BIOQUELL could be involved in your ‘deep clean’, please contact us directly through the link below: