3rd October 2006, Ware, Herts. 

Compass Medirest, part of the Compass Group was recently awarded the Health Innovation of the Year Award by the Patients Association for its a+ cleaninginitiative. The award is the most important and prestigious in healthcare cleaning.

Claire Rayner, president of the Patients Association said "Companies such as Medirest play an important part in the clean hospital campaign and they have an innovative way of involving and motivating their staff which leads to greater commitment and training and can only help to raise standards of cleanliness."

The a+ cleaning initiative has been introduced at 20 NHS hospitals across the UK to improve cleanliness and hygiene standards. According to Ian Moore, Medirest strategic development director "The a+ system is a team-led approach to raising cleaning standards and improving the patient environment in hospitals. It embraces best-practice cleaning, supply chain partnering, new cleaning technology and ongoing research and development to deliver cleaner hospitals."

GreenValet's Clematis Stores Manager and Clematis Profile are key components of the a+ cleaning intiative and are used in all 20 hospitals in the program. Clematis Stores Manager provides managers with control over stock distribution, cleaning operations, planning and budgets. Clematis Profile enables performance optimisation through the benchmarking process in which all a+ cleaning initiative hospitals participate.

GreenValet are proud to play a part in the a+ cleaning initiative.

About Compass Group

Compass is one of the largest Facilities Management organisations in the world. Compass Medirest is the UK subsidiary responsible for healthcare, and is the largest provider of independent cleaning, catering and hotel services to the National Health Service.