Norovirus outbreak

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Bioquell has developed the Norovirus Suppression Programme to overcome issues associated with the speed of Norovirus onset, the scale of environmental contamination and the operational issues it causes. Hospitals can combine their own preferred protocols and infection control bundles with Bioquell’s knowledge of contamination risk-management and control, alongside our best practice lessons learnt during ‘real world’ Norovirus deployments.

Bioquell’s Norovirus Suppression Programme is agreed in detail with the hospital in preparation for the onset of an outbreak and typically includes:

• Working closely with the hospital’s infection control team to integrate Bioquell’s solutions with existing Norovirus remediation protocols or infection control bundles. Best practice on patient movement, PPE and access rules will be employed
• The establishment of the process for initiating a high priority Bioquell bio-decontamination deployment
• The trigger points and procedures that end a deployment
• A recommendation to implement the Bioquell Committed Technology service to facilitate a quick and flexible response
• Co-ordinated and agreed management information flow including updates on daily deployments and cost capture. Clinical and operational feedback to individual units and senior management is also provided

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Benefits

Bioquell’s Norovirus Suppression Programme comprises a strategy based on best practice, which can be tailored to the specific requirements of the hospital. In effect, the plan is a pre-designed, pre-planned reactive service. It involves Bioquell engineers and equipment deploying rapidly to a hospital site at the onset of the outbreak, sometimes with equipment pre-located at the hospital. They then remain there to limit the spread of Norovirus by performing room or unit bio-decontaminations until the Norovirus outbreak has been arrested.

During the peak of a Norovirus outbreak, the Bioquell deployment will run in a very similar manner to Bioquell’s Proactive service, with personnel integrated within the hospital undertaking the Norovirus response on a daily basis. By reducing the extent of outbreaks and allowing more efficient cohorting, the Bioquell Norovirus suppression plan can help minimise unit closures, allowing hospitals to improve patient throughput and bed availability during the busy winter months. Hospitals can then achieve significant cost benefit by admitting additional patients to increase revenue generation. Further costs will also be saved by reducing the requirement for temporary replacement staff as Norovirus outbreaks are contained.

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