Cleaning Assurance Manual (Updated to the 2025 guidance for Paediatric Hospice)

The National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 require all organisations providing health and care services to seek assurance their cleaning policies and processes are effective. CQC are continuing to inspect services against the Code of practice for the prevention and control of infections. This includes the requirement for clean, safe environments, with proportionate assurance processes in place, to demonstrate policies and processes are sufficient and are followed.

This Manual describes and explains the National Standards in the context of your service.  Also included in the Manual are templates you may use to build or enhance your own Environmental Cleaning Plan.

Essential reference for management of housekeeping /domestic cleaning, this manual is fully updated for the guidance issued in April 2021 and the Code of Practice (2022) Includes policies, sample method statements and sample tables to show the room type and risk, the elements and frequency.

This version is supplied as an emailed hyperlinked (PDF) and is ready for your intranet or shared drive or you can buy the hardcopy version.

This cleaning management manual is specific and tailored for Hospices only.