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Hygienic laundry
Laundry is found throughout a hospital or care home: uniforms, bed linen,
catering articles, surgical dress, cleaning items (i.e. mops), patient clothing,
etc. Laundry plays an essential role in patient comfort whilst protecting
employees in their place of work.
Laundry is a potential carrier of healthcare acquired infections.
It is therefore vital to control its flow. Special measures must be taken to
ensure hygiene levels are maintained. The laundry items themselves must
not pose a threat to health and remain innocuous at every stage of their
storage, use and handling.
The key to this is to implement as strict process for all linen to be
processed, whether it is potentially poses a threat to health or not.
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