Deep cleaning--valid or publicity stunt?
While deep cleaning is not new--hospitals have undertaken deep cleans ward-by-ward for some time, often following a "superbug" outbreak, Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Prime Minister Gordon Brown both emphasised on announcing the mandate that this was the first time all English NHS hospitals had been asked to deep clean their entire site, "restoring surfaces and fabrics to as close as possible as their original condition".
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D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006797:Housekeeping, Hospital / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011641:Public Relations; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom