Recent news reports have revealed that cross contamination is still a big problem in the meat industry in the UK, mainly due to a lack of effective cleaning.[i] This suggests a problem that is highly relevant to healthcare industries...
Fighting the spread of infection There is potential for an enormous number of different pathogens to pass through a care home every day. Residents may move into the home with existing infections that could pose a risk to others....
What is Winter Flu? As the weather gets colder and wetter and the nights draw in, the number of people with coughs, sniffles and sneezes grows. People are absent from the office, friends cancel engagements and you seem to...
As a company dedicated to protecting health through better hygiene and washroom practices, we recognise that improving hand hygiene can quite literally be, a lifesaver. Rentokil Initial is a proud supporter of Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day...
There’s a spectre looming across hospital wards across the country. It lurks in corridors and clings to hospital beds. And more and more every day, doctors are struggling in their fight against it. It’s antibiotic-resistant bacteria – and it’s...
Hospital waiting rooms have never been known for their modernity. Caught in the limbo between your real life and your medical check-up, sitting in one for half an hour will make you feel as though you’re stuck in some...
Another day, another pandemic on the horizon. But as MERS spreads its ways across the Asian continent, scientists are far less worried than tabloid headlines might suggest. According to New Scientist magazine, the disease has hit South Korea hard....
Superbugs are a constant threat to hospitals across the UK – but one has been tamed by staff in Birmingham. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital struggled for 18 months to keep the Acinetobacter baumannii bug from infecting its patients. But,...
There are many things people don’t want to see in hospitals. In fact, most people would rather not be in a hospital at all. But one sight that’ll make you pack up your catheter and head for the hills...
There’s no virus like Norovirus, as the show tune didn’t go. It’s the bug that prowls around hospital corridors, preying on the sick to make them sicker – and it can send medical institutions into disarray. NHS Dumfries and...