Hospital cleanliness
Hospital cleanliness: PEAT 2005 assessmentRationale
Research carried out amongst various interest groups in advance of the launch of the NHS Plan identified that cleanliness had become a major issue. Public interest in this issue remains high and is heightened by concerns around healthcare acquired infections.
Thresholds
| Legend | ||
|---|---|---|
| Achieved |  |
3.0 or more |
| Underachieved | - | Greater than or equal to 2.0 and less than 3.0 |
| Significantly underachieved | x | Less than 2.0 |
Data source and period
PEAT (Financial Year 2004/05)
Construction
Numerator:
The PEAT rating for each site that has at least 10 overnight beds is calculated using the following methodology:
The total number of PEAT points achieved divided by the number of PEAT points available. This figure is expressed as a percentage and provides an initial rating for the site.
A weighting process is then applied which emphasises the areas that patients deem most important. Where applicable, this includes the areas below:
- Cleanliness in wards
- Cleanliness in emergency departments
- Cleanliness in other departments and waiting areas
- Cleanliness of toilets in wards
- Cleanliness of toilets in emergency departments
- Cleanliness of toilets in other departments, and waiting areas
- Cleanliness of bathrooms in wards
- Environment in toilets in wards
- Environment in toilets in emergency departments
- Environment in toilets in other departments and waiting areas
- Environment in bathrooms in wards
The PEAT score will be based on the following mapping from the site PEAT rating:
Excellent - 5
Good - 4
Acceptable - 3
Poor - 2
Unacceptable - 1
The PEAT score (1-5) achieved by each rated site in a Trust is multiplied by the number of beds in each rated site and summed across all rated sites.
Denominator:
The total number of beds across the sites that have at least 10 overnight beds.
Indicator:
The PEAT score (1-5) achieved by each rated site in a Trust multiplied by the number of beds in each rated site summed across all rated sites divided by the total number of beds across the sites that have at least 10 overnight beds to produce an indicator value between 1 and 5.
A further caveat will be applied based on whether any site within the trust was rated as Unacceptable. The trust would not achieve this indicator if any of its sites were deemed Unacceptable. In this case, the maximum possible score would be 2.900.
