We are extremely fortunate in this country to be N H S funded for our medical care and technologies are being improved year on year to advance patient care and service. We all know that one of the largest causes of the spread of infection in hospitals is most certainly via contact with human hands. Germs are not spread just by the hands of medical staff, but also the hands of the patients, volunteers and of course visitors to the hospitals.
The hands are responsible for the spread of germs, infections and diseases and they can easily infect everything they touch. These days extra precautions are in place to help reduce the spread of infection and if you visit a hospital nowadays you will witness alcohol gel dispensing machines located outside every ward and in various points throughout the hospital. The aim is that all patients, visitors, bed managers and staff will disinfect their hands with this alcohol gel before entering wards and on route through the hospital premises.
Too many individuals die each year due to hand spread infections in hospitals and unfortunately the bacteria is becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics, which is a massive concern as there are not enough new antibiotics coming onto the market to counter act this and the old ones have been all but exhausted.
There is an urgent need to remove as many objects as possible from hospitals that require hand or hand held operations. There are certain changes already in place including bins that are now foot operated and taps that are elbow operated in surgery preparation rooms. The aims and objectives of all hospitals are to try and replace the rest of all the hand operated systems as soon as at all possible.
As the majority of infections are caused by the bacteria carried on the hands, one way to reduce infection would be to install automatic doors throughout the hospitals. By removing the old style doors with the traditional push/pull handles which have to be touched by everyone including unwell patients and replacing them with automatic doors, there will be far less chance for infections to be spread throughout the hospital.
On secure wards including Intensive care, Dementia, Children’s and Psychiatric wards; a button free intercom system combined with CCTV cameras could be used to secure the entrance and exit pathways while still ensuring no cards have to be swiped or buttons pressed.
The state of the art sensors on the automatic doors enable them to recognize the difference between individuals walking through or hospital porters pushing a gurney, this means everyone’s health and safety is perfectly safe when utilizing an automated door system throughout the hospital.
According to the NHS’s own research, 6% of all patients are struck down with some form of infection while in hospital. However, by installing automatic doors throughout our hospitals we will reduce the incidence of people touching the same object (in this case the door handle). By reducing the amount of objects that people have to touch, the rates of infection are certain to go down. As well as automatic doors, ADSF UK LTD are supplying their new Hands Free Toilet System which is proving very popular in hospitals, medical centres, schools, universities, office blocks and by the hospitality trade. The Premis 120 automatic door toilet system is shown on our website via our on line shop. Of course there are many other hand operated items that can be removed; such as light switches, toilet seats, hand bins etc. It is hoped that the installation of these new hands free products will help save as much as tens of thousands of lives each year.
Quite apart from reducing the spread of infection in hospitals, automatic doors deliver many other benefits for hospitals including access solutions and cost reductions. It is not however just the disabled and the elderly population groups who will be advantaged by the installing of automatic doors, parents with young children in tow and visitors bringing in their loved ones belongings or flowers and gifts will also relish not having to struggle with the old heavy, manually operated doors. All hospitals suffer with demanding and unreasonable budgets and management are constantly striving to reduce their overheads. The beauty of automatic doors is that they cannot be left open at any time which means expensive heat is not allowed to escape outside and heating bills are significantly reduced.
ADSF UK LTD is a well established automatic door company and is proud of their automatic door installations in hospitals throughout the United Kingdom.
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