Cleaning services. The cleanliness of health care premises and equipment has been firmly fixed on the NHS agenda as a key issue since 2000.

The cleanliness of any health care environment is important to support infection prevention and control and ensure patient confidence. Cleaning staff play an important role in improving the quality of the care environment.

Medway Community Healthcare provides a wide range of both planned and unscheduled care in local settings such as healthy living centres, inpatient units and people's homes.

On 1.4.2011 Medway Community Healthcare became a social enterprise Community Interest Company (CIC), providing community NHS services to the people of Medway in Kent. We are formed from the services directly provided by NHS Medway and have a strong history of partnership working with local GPs, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Medway Council and other local stakeholders.

Medway on Call Care (MedOCC).

MedOCC deals with urgent care problems when GP surgeries are closed. MedOCC is open 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

The delivery of a high quality cleaning service is complex, demanding and should not be underestimated. MedOCC require a cleaning service from an external provider to ensure that the Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) annual assessments standards are met within their environment. PEAT is an annual assessment of inpatient healthcare sites. It is a benchmarking tool to ensure improvements are made in the non-clinical aspects of patient care.

Medway Community Healthcare CIC invite expressions of interest from bidders who can work with us to ensure the annual PEAT assessments are achieved to the set thresholds.