Organisation Name: Raydoc’s
Location: 243 Wheeler St, B19 2ET
Infection Control Lead at the Organisation: Mary Mungovan
Date Infection Control Statement Produced: 10/03/22
Date of next review: 10/03/23
As a requirement of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 Code of Practice, on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance, it is required that an annual statement be produced regarding compliance with good practice on infection prevention and control. The annual statement will be made available for anyone that wishes to see it, including service users, their representatives, and regulatory authorities. It has been produced by Mary Mungovan and will be updated annually, or when current advice and guidelines change.
There have been no significant events reported regarding infection control issues in the period covered by this report we are still in Covid pandemic and have changed our ways of working according to latest guidelines. This cascaded to all members of staff by emails/practice team meetings on a regular basis or as changes announced.
We are still using PPE to see patients face to face. We will lateral flow when needed until recently we encouraged staff to check twice weekly and most staff have been vaccinated and if staff do test positive they are advised to stay at home until they test negative.
Audit Summary
This section should include a summary of audits undertaken at the service. The areas to cover include: The Audit was carried out on Saturday 19/02/22 by Mary Mungovan while most of the Clinical rooms were unoccupied.
Purpose of audit was to check cleanliness, tidiness, how the rooms are left at the end of a session.
All the clinical rooms were inspected all soap, towels and ppe in the rooms over both floors.
The fixtures and fittings are all in good order as we only moved in to building 12 months ago.
Issues found:
- Dannicentre’s not filled gloves boxes left on tables
- Some rooms were overloaded with coach rolls stored on floor
- Blue curtains need to be changed
- Desks generally cluttered/food in rooms
- Patient chairs placed near the door so difficult for staff member to leave to room in an emergency
- Used mask left on desk/used blood sugar strips left on work top along side used lancets
- Items used in examination are not in covered boxes
Describe the action taken following the audits and whether the audit actions are now closed or open and require further work to close:
- Spoke directly with the Management Team
- Email will be sent to all members of staff to show my findings.
- We have started systematically to tidy up the rooms ground floor has done by the Nursing team.
- First floor where the major problems were each Clinician will be asked to make the necessary changes in their area.
- Then I will do another inspection in 2/52 to review the situation.
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