"Overflowing bins and unclean floors"

I feel the need to highlight this as a visiting relative who also works in healthcare. Hopefully the issue will reach the correct area and be addressed.

I have previously highlighted the unclean entrance to RAH Maternity ground floor, the toilets etc and how as the first impression of the maternity unit it does not look promising if the bins are overflowing and unclean floors on your first arrival as a patient or visitor. It seems the lack of cleanliness is filtering through to the Maternity ward areas now.

While on the ward visiting a family member, I witnessed myself and also heard visitors from bedspaces within the same room commenting to the domestic staff about the bins overflowing with rubbish, no toilet paper in the shared toilets, no hand soap, paper towels, in a Maternity postnatal ward! This is totally unacceptable. The member of staff did apologise and advised that this had been due to a shortage of staff on previous days that week and that she would get all these matters dealt with asap.

If staff shortages are an issue, the whole system shouldn't fail, surely there should be floating domestic staff that can be used somewhere on a daily basis, a hospital can never be too clean. I also noticed the orange bins were almost overflowing and understand this is the responsibility of the ward staff to empty, and probably staff shortages are due to this not being done, which again is totally unacceptable.

I also noticed some other patients bedspaces were cluttered with rubbish / dirty nappies etc on floor, baby cots and bedside units but when the bins are already full where can they put it?

Hopefully this can be addressed and get the wards back to the standard expected of patients coming in and their relatives when visiting as it was the topic of conversation in the room when I was there.