28. Cleaning during an outbreak Frequency of environmental cleaning must be increased to at least twice daily. Fixtures and fittings in toilets and environmental surfaces should be cleaned with Chlorclean using a disposable colour coded cloth, particular emphasis should be placed on all frequently touched surfaces, for example door handles 29. Deep cleaning post outbreak Once an outbreak has been declared over, a deep clean of all affected areas must be conducted. See Appendix E. 30. Equality Impact Assessment This Policy was found to be compliant with this philosophy (See appendix G). 31. Training Needs Analysis NHS Kirklees is committed to the training and continuing development of all staff including independent contractors on all relevant issues surrounding the outbreak of community infections. All induction programmes and Infection Prevention and Control mandatory training will include outbreak and isolation information. 32. Monitoring compliance with this policy NHS Kirklees will have key indicators for the monitoring of outbreaks within the community and these indicators will be included in all performance processes including the Assurance Framework •
Infection control post outbreak performance audit will be undertaken following the completion of the outbreak. (See Appendix F.)
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Percentage of incident reports attributed to an outbreak
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Percentage of clinical and non-clinical staff undertaking mandatory annual infection prevention and control training.
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Healthcare associated infections due to an outbreak of infection identified after completion of Root Cause Analysis investigations.
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Quality indicators will be a part of normal performance monitoring against a set of local, regional and nationally, (nationally via the evidence for Standards for Better Health which will be superseded in 2009 by the Care Quality Commission).
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