[Margaret Pilkington]

When patients are discharged the bed and the locker and the chart holders are washed with detergent and dried before being made up with fresh linen.
This does not happen in all hospitals........some hospitals only wash down the bed frame and the mattress if there has been a spillage of body fluids.

Electrical equipment is decontaminated before servicing or repair.

I don't know if there are any checks on the ventilation system, but it stands to reason that if the ventilation system is linked from all the wards, then there must be a possibility of bacteria finding their way into the system and being spread in this manner - unless there are some ventilation engineers out there who can tell me any different. Viruses do not survive outside the body, but bacteria can be airborne.
The single bedded wards in some areas have some kind of 'reverse air flow' that is supposed to stop the spread of infection by this route......though I am not sure how this works.