Sealed room solution or combating HCAIs

Suzanne Callander reports on the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust's installation of the UK's first Steris VaproQuip fully enclosed decontamination room system, which has enabled considerably quicker, simultaneous decontamination of equipment such as drips stands, computers, and keyboards within a single space. The system's purchase is just one element of a committed and considerably broader Trust drive to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HCAls), and particularly to reduce cases of C. difficile. This has also seen implemented a wide range of other cleaning and decontamination activities--from use of mobile HPV units to systematic ward decants and touch point cleaning.