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By Wesley Smith, Sales and Marketing Director at The Clean Space
In today’s evolving healthcare landscape, ensuring high standards of cleanliness is critical. As healthcare providers expand their networks across multiple sites, the challenge isn’t just about maintaining cleanliness, it’s about delivering consistent, compliant, and compassionate cleaning standards at every location. Cleaning is a frontline defence against infection, reputational damage, and regulatory non-compliance. And when you’re doing it across several sites, in different locations, for different types of care providers, the challenges multiply rapidly.
The challenges of multi-site healthcare cleaning
Healthcare settings are highly regulated, high-risk environments. Cleaning providers aren’t just maintaining environments; they’re actively protecting patients, staff, and reputations. From strict regulatory compliance to infection control, our approach is grounded in science and strengthened by experience. Our operatives undergo rigorous training in healthcare-specific cleaning protocols, equipping them to handle disinfectants safely, manage clinical waste, and operate in sensitive environments where sterility is paramount.
Trusted by leaders in healthcare
Traditional cleaning models don’t always translate to healthcare settings, let alone multiple ones. At The Clean Space, we’re proud to be the cleaning partner of choice for organisations that set the benchmark for healthcare in the UK and have built a specialist, healthcare-led approach designed to overcome sector-specific obstacles.
We currently serve over 56 healthcare sites, supporting leading providers like My Healthcare Clinic and Nuffield Health. These aren’t simple contracts, they’re carefully structured partnerships grounded in tailored training, scientific protocols, and shared goals for patient safety.
Ensuring consistency
Patients and staff expect the same level of hygiene and professionalism across every location, and with busy clinic schedules and patient footfall variations, cleaning experts need to offer flexible contracts accommodating clinic hours to minimise disruption, and provide rapid response cleaning due to infection risks or emergency response needs.
Consistency isn’t a coincidence, it requires deliberate design. At the start of every contract, we audit each location in person to understand its layout, needs, patient flow, and clinical risks. We then design site-specific cleaning regimes within a standardised framework to make sure that every clinic benefits from the same level of care, compliance, and responsiveness.
Navigating compliance and infection control
The 2025 National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness reflect the latest thinking in infection prevention, cleaning techniques, and compliance transparency. These guidelines promote collective responsibility, encouraging both clinical and non-clinical teams to work together in maintaining high standards across shared environments. Translating guidelines into frontline practice requires deep expertise and close collaboration between clinical and non-clinical teams.
Our teams are trained to work within CQC frameworks, NHS infection protocols, and now the new 2025 standards. This allows our cleaning professionals to confidently and safely operate in high-risk areas, from waiting rooms and consultation spaces to clinical waste zones and high-touch surfaces.
Looking ahead: Supporting the future of healthcare
The future of healthcare cleaning is not just about compliance. It’s about contribution. As healthcare becomes more decentralised and multi-site in nature, cleaning providers must become proactive partners, helping to reduce infection rates, meet environmental goals, and support the mental and physical safety of staff and patients.
We believe cleaning should be treated as a strategic function, especially in healthcare. That means investment in people, process innovation, and a commitment to standards that don’t just tick boxes, but deliver real-world reassurance. We want to raise expectations across the industry. That starts by acknowledging the complexity of multi-site healthcare cleaning and championing solutions that are designed specifically for these environments.
