NHS CEO David Nicholson learned more about Vernacare’s Green Ribbon hospital cleanliness project, via which patients are visibly reassured that their bed area has been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected via a green ribbon around the bed, during a recent visit to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.
Between discharge of one patient and admission of another, nursing staff thoroughly clean the bed space, including the furniture, and make the bed, then placing green Vernacare Indicator tape across the turned down top bed sheet, sealing it, and adding their signature and the date of the clean. It is the patient’s responsibility to break the seal on the tape.
