Biting back at the bed bugs

MRSA Action UK Chair Derek Butler asks
if managing high bed occupancy can be balanced
to ensure the delivery of appropriate care - at
the right time, and in a safe setting...

Health Global December 2009
Derek Butler, Chairman, MRSA Action UK comments on what is needed in the drive to improve quality in the NHS
                          

With government spending on the NHS continuing to increase and the private sector playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of health care and ancillary services, the opportunity to do business with the NHS has never been greater.  National Health Executive features thought provoking and sometimes controversial editorial by some of the biggest names in the health sector-managers, academics, politicians and clinicians-on the big issues affecting the NHS.Derek Butler considers the current state of play on healthcare infections....

 March 2009
 Issue: 45

 Soap star: 
 The hygiene special issue

On NHS cleaning contracts - paying a little and getting a lot just cannot be done

It is time to stop the finger pointing
of who is to blame for the
poor cleanliness of our hospitals,
says Derek Butler....

But one of the most asked about topics is, without a doubt, workplace bathrooms - and, as we found out in the course of putting this magazine together, it is always the more unusual subjects such as workplace bathrooms that prove most interesting when subjected to further research.

The bathroom is, after all, one of the only facilities that all workplaces have to have, thus providing many issues for managers to contend with; there are problems related to staff monitoring, allocation, disability and access, as well as hygiene problems that can be carried from the bathroom to the rest of the workplace.  Within the remit of this topic, small questions lead to large answers.