Cleaning operations at the new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital in London are being managed by CK Group and an in-house team using ‘innovative’ TASKI machines and equipment from Diversey Care.
In addition to deploying a fleet of floorcare machines, microfibre, and trolley systems, the site is the first hospital in the UK to use the TASKI Intellibot robotic scrubber-drier. The £160 million Guy’s Cancer Centre provides a full range of outpatient services, including radiotherapy, chemotherapy, imaging, minor procedures, and therapies. By bringing the majority of cancer treatment into one building, it will streamline care provision and improve the treatment experience for patients from across South East London and beyond.
CK Group has provided cleaning services for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust for many years, and during the construction phase its management team started working with Trust counterparts to devise, commission, and implement, a cleaning regime to meet extremely strict criteria and objectives. Alongside exceptional levels of hygiene, these included meeting the Trust’s wish to embrace innovation and sustainable cleaning.
Although the treatment floors of the Cancer Centre have slightly different layouts, each generally has an open liftlobby area with access to treatment rooms and changing rooms, specialist facilities, washrooms, offices, and external balconies for patients, visitors, and staff, to relax.
The cleaning requirement is similar for all floors, but each must have a specific set of cleaning processes, machines, and tools. Working to the brief agreed with the in-house team, CK Group recommended a complete range of TASKI equipment from Diversey Care, which the Trust purchased through CK Consumables. Diversey Care said: “The most prominent innovation is the all-new TASKI Intellibot robotic cleaner, which will work on its own with minimal supervision to clean open areas including the lift-lobbies. Its hands-free cleaning capability offers significant improvements in productivity by relieving skilled operatives from routine floorcare tasks to focus on other duties where they can add value. The Intellibot is also a highly visible demonstration that the Trust and its service-provider have invested in a ground-breaking innovation.”
“We trialled the Intellibot at St Thomas’s very successfully earlier in the year,” said Ian Pether, CK Group’s managing director. “We like to invest in technology and innovation for contracts because this shows our cleaners we are investing in them to enhance performance and hygiene levels. We want to enhance standards with the same number of staff, and for the same money, but we still need people on the floor.”
