Cleaning Hygiene Today Cleaning Hygiene Magazine
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.
At the clean space, we’ve embraced this challenge. Trusted by some of the UK’s leading healthcare providers, we currently support over 56 clinics, delivering tailored, science-led cleaning solutions that prioritise infection control and uphold patient safety.
Trusted by leaders in healthcare
We’re proud to be the cleaning partner of choice for organisations that set the for healthcare in the UK. One of our long-standing partnerships is with My Healthcare Clinic, a leader in private GP and dental care. Our team manages the daily cleaning of all their facilities, from consultation rooms to waiting areas, ensuring a pristine, infection-free environment that patients and clinicians can trust.
We also support Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, delivering our bespoke cleaning services at its Foundation headquarters and health centres at Queen Anne Street and South Quay Plaza. Our tailored protocols reflect their high standards and help maintain their reputation for excellence in patient care.
The challenges of multi-site healthcare cleaning
Cleaning for multi-site healthcare networks presents a number of unique challenges. 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.
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 for ad-hoc urgent requirements.
We work closely with our clients to ensure that our standardised cleaning protocols guarantee a uniform approach for each location. At the beginning of every contract we visit each site to understand its unique requirements, and talk to the client team to ensure we understand and accommodate their needs. Our audit and quality assurance processes ensure that every site receives the same high standards of service.
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.
At the clean space, our teams are trained to meet and exceed these standards, fully aligning with CQC regulations and NHS infection prevention protocols. From high-touch surfaces like door handles and medical instruments to specialist equipment and public spaces, our cleaning regimes play a crucial role in reducing the spread of infections.
Looking ahead: Supporting the future of healthcare
Whether it’s GP surgeries, dental clinics, private hospitals, or medical research centres, healthcare cleaning experts must deliver the highest standards of cleaning to protect against infections, support regulatory compliance, and ensure all stakeholders feel safe and protected.
As healthcare networks continue to expand, the clean space is committed to providing innovative and reliable cleaning solutions that support patient care, enhance clinical safety, and uphold the reputation of multi-site healthcare providers.
