The iDCS specialised hospital and healthcare deep cleaning service from cleaning contractors City & Kent Cleaning was recently used to deep clean maternity clinics, wards and other clinical services throughout the Mid-Essex Primary Care Trust.

The aim, according to Jean Glasspool, business development director at City & Kent, was to take the hassle out of an extremely pressured group of medical areas. In all, the intensive deep cleans were carried out at three wards, two outpatients departments, one endoscopy, and two phlebotomy departments, as well as the two maternity clinics. In addition, two Rapid Assessment Areas and two therapy departments were also deep cleaned.

The majority of the work was carried out overnight or at weekends as the Primary Care Trust could not interrupt its clinical services.
The iDCS service embraces specialist applications that effectively provide for a cleaner, safer healthcare environment. All areas, including beds and surrounding curtains, are steam decontaminated, as are trolleys, fans and wheelchairs.

Leading international full service engineering, procurement and construction contractor M W Kellogg has appointed LCC Support Services to maintain its UK buildings.

The contract, which has already started, comprises three buildings totalling over 230,000 sq ft of offices. There are three buildings on two campuses - an 11 storey tower site on the Greenford Road and two additional buildings at nearby Oddessy Business Park, Greenford. A team of 50 LCC staff providing both daytime and evening cleaning maintains the buildings, which are occupied by 1600 Kellogg staff. The company handles all internal and carpet cleaning, feminine hygiene, roller towel maintenance and other support services.

Bob Vincent, managing director of LCC Support Services, said: “This is a very prestigious win both in terms of the organisation and the quality of buildings. I believe that experience gained at some of our contracts in Docklands has helped LCC achieve this contract.”

The Charlton House catering team at Sue Ryder Care - Nettlebed Hospice, Oxfordshire, has been singled out from 150 catering teams nationwide to receive The Alan Barnett Excellence Award for Hygiene, named after Charlton House’s health, safety and environment manager who died last year.

Charlton House catering manager, Beccy Harley and her team of Sue Ager and Liz Ray were chosen as overall winners for their outstanding levels of hygiene and adherence to the stringent health & safety standards required across all of Charlton House’s contracts. Harley was presented with a glass trophy, a certificate and a cheque for £250 at Charlton House’s annual conference.

Support services company, resource has signed a new contract worth over £750,000 to supply cleaning services to Foyleside Shopping Centre in Derry over the next three years. resource will be responsible for providing cleaning, security and hygiene services for the shopping centre.

The company will also provide the cleaning services contract for Foyleside’s new food quarter, which opened in May 2008. Eilish Doherty, operations manager at resource, said: “We’ve been providing cleaning services for Foyleside for the last 4 years and we’re delighted to be awarded this new extended contract. We’re now able to offer the shopping centre a bundled services contract, which means better value for Foyleside as one specialist team will provide a range of support services, working closely with centre management to provide its shoppers with the best in customer care.

Nilfisk-Advance and Initial Air Services are working together to ensure ‘top flight’ cleaning standards at Durham Tees Valley and Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airports in the north of England. Initial’s experienced cleaning teams maintain hard and carpeted floors throughout both airports, from terminal buildings to management offices and air traffic control centres.

The Nilfisk machinery package is tailored to the needs of each site and includes high productivity scrubber/dryers, wet and dry commercial vacuum cleaners and carpet extractors featuring the latest moisture recovery technology. Airport services and security manager, Mike Clark, was instrumental in selecting the cleaning contractor for Robin Hood Airport. He said: “Initial Air Services’ experience in airport cleaning and Nilfisk’s high performance machines provide the added value and service flexibility that we demand for our busy 24/7 environment.”