[Anubis]

Infection control is one of the biggest issues facing healthcare and related professions. Hospitals, care and residential homes are obvious candidates for an increased level of care but there are many other healthcare related professions that are at risk including sports centres, private clinics, chiropractors, physios, dentists, nurseries, funeral homes etc. We are one of the UKs leading companies in advising healthcare and other industries regarding reducing risk from cross infection. We also advise contract cleaners and anyone that has a business that in any way deals with cleaning, including some of the biggest in the UK. If you need advice then you can contact us on 0114 220 2220 or email info@anubishealthcare.com.
I have been asked to add some more info to this and without being alarmist I'll just state the facts that are available in the public domain.
Over 5000 people per year die as a consequence of Healthcare Aquired Infections. 2000 died last year from C.Diff alone. Expressing it a different way Healthcare Aquired Infections are the 3rd biggest killer in the UK behind cancer and heart disease. They are reponsible for the deaths of more people than RTAs and murders.
It is widely accepted that a flu pandemic will occur. The number of infections is predicted to be 25% of the population which in this country would mean around 15000000. Of those the mortalitiy rate is predicted at 2.5% which is 375000 deaths of which around 42% would be within a 2 week period at it's peak. This would mean around 157500 people would die in a 2 week period. These would generally be the very young the very old and the infirm.
Contract cleaners have to be aware of infection control issues and they can play an important part in reducing cross infection.

[DP]

Alarmist of course not, The fact that you say we are all going to die real soon shouldn’t bother anyone.

I heard that there is about 100,000 para.....people all trying to earn money off the back of it too by shocking people into reacting and reaching for their wallet.

Cant say I have run into any of them yet though

Unless...oh dear!

[Anubis]

I could see your point but thankfully that's not what we do.
Working as we do it's by it's very nature a business where we give advice and training.
The problem here is that we are bound to be seen as profiting from the potential misery of others and also the only way to promote good practice in infection control is by making people aware of the problems in a pretty direct way.
Again, unfortunately, if you come to a forum offering advice or a service you are, to some extent, tarred with the same brush as the less ethical companies.
We only work with approved and accredited agencies and the vast majority of our work is by referral.
If people want advice we'll give it FOC.
The reason I came to this forum is the British disease which harms more people than any other. Not going to do anything about it until it's too late.
We have a vast amount of data and reference material available, most of it in the public domain, and we can let people have it rather than having to search. Again it's on a 'not for profit basis'.
Thanks for your posting and may I assure you that you haven't found the kind of company you thought you may have.
My father died of an HAI last year and it tends to focus the mind. Not everything is about money.

[DP]

Good for you.
However you will excuse me if I don’t change my view on this just yet!

People tar themselves with what they say or do as with your opening post, everyone else are just observers, and to the best of my knowledge I have never come across a business that didn’t run on money however generous it would appear to be.

The other thing that never ceases to amaze me is what people will say to justify themselves and patronise others.

Sadly we will all suffer loses from time to time as I have, but I cant think of a single occasion where I would want to use any part of that to sell something.

Your problem is not what you do, its the way your selling it, assuming the gullibility of others.

Not everything is about money.

Unfortunately if there is a sale at the end of it, then I'm afraid it is!

Added:
It seems you are involved with sales after all! What a surprise.

 

[John Kelly]

Health care aquired infections would be such a big issue if they cleaned the bloody hospitals properly.

[Robert Parry]

The phrases "Standards/Training and money" all come into the equation here.

The real reason these infections keep killing people is quite simple, the above phrases cover it all, regards,

Rob

[John Kelly]

Just have a look at this heart breaking forum http://www.robprince.net/mrsa/forum.asp

[Anubis]

Hi DP,

Of course we sell things.

What I am trying to get across is that we have the database and experience and if anyone needs info. all they have to do is ask and we'll give it to them.

In our travels we find allsorts of situations where infections pose a risk. The main problem being that in many areas the risk may be unknown due to a lack of information.

How many people coming to this site undertake tasks in a healthcare setting or healthcare associated setting. I would imagine that there are plenty of contract cleaners and carpet cleaners that go into care homes for instance.

The chances of us selling to contract cleaners is somewhat limited as the products we sell tend to be higher value. I'm not saying that contract cleaners wouldn't buy the higher end infection control products but at the end of the day, if present practice is anything to go by, it's unlikely.

As a company we operate in a very tight niche area and a great deal of what we do is specialised.

Even though we don't particular operate in a janitorial/contract cleaning environment a great deal pf the info. we have is applicable and for the sake of an email we don't mind passing it on.


Robert Parry is right by the way.

[Robert Parry]

Anubis, at present our biggest contract is indeed a large hospital, I would br grateful for any info that you could supply, many thanks, regards,

Rob

[Anubis]

Hi Rob,

Drop me an email with your contact details to andrew@anubishealthcare.com and I'd be pleased to assist in any way I can.