Staff asked to help clean hospitals

Medical staff at one of the UK's top children's hospitals have been asked to clean wards in their spare time.

Bosses at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool asked doctors and nurses including consultants and managers to help improve levels of cleanliness across the hospital's wards outside working hours.

The call came ahead of a visit by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission, who had previously criticised the hospital's hygiene standards back in April.

Unions said Alder Hey Children's Hospital should employ the services of professional cleaning companies who are approprately trained instead of relying on highly skilled doctors and nurses.

Dr Jaswinder Bamrah, of the British Medical Association, said: "They are over-using a highly skilled workforce to do what they are not trained to do. They need to look at the issue of who is paid to do the cleaning and sort it out."

She added that is important properly trained cleaning professionals are employed to clean Alder Hey Children's Hospital otherwise patients could be exposed to serious infections such as C difficile or MRSA.

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'Cleaners worth more to society than City bankers'

Cleaners are more valuable to society than City bankers, a new study from the New Economics Foundation suggests.

The organisation's A Bit Rich? report reveals that elite City bankers earning £1 million or more in bonuses destroy £7 of value for every £1 they create, while cleaners create over £10 in value for every £1 they receive in pay.

Similarly, waste recycling workers generate £12 for every £1 that is spent on their wages.

Researchers reached their conclusions by measuring conventional economic returns including job creation but adding positive or negative changes in wellbeing to individuals and to society at large.

Eilis Lawlor, head of the Valuing What Matters team at the New Economics Foundation, said there needs to be a relationship between what people are paid and the value of their jobs to society.

"Pay levels often don't reflect the true value that is being created," she said. "As a society, we need a pay structure which rewards those jobs that create most societal benefit, rather than those that generate profits at the expense of society and the environment."

Last month cleaners servicing Virgin trains on the West Coast Main Line went on strike to protest against low pay and poor employment conditions.

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