The document is a matron's report presented to the board of directors. It summarizes the matron's responsibilities in overseeing patient care, staff, and efficient hospital operations. The report covers appointments of matrons, development of a matrons forum, efforts to ensure consistency and quality across areas like environmental cleanliness, infection control, clinical standards, and positive patient experiences. It highlights audits showing improvements in areas like integrated patient records and maintaining standards, while continuing to address issues like delayed discharges. The conclusion indicates that most cleanliness and infection control standards are generally being met at a high level based on individual matron reports.

1. Presentation on
Matron's Report
Presented by:
Kuldeep Bordoloi
MBA(HC), 3rd sem
A. D. T. U

2. Introduction:
The word "matron" is derived from the
Latin for ‘mother’. She is responsible for all the
nurses and domestic staff, overseeing all patient
care, and the efficient running of the hospital,
cleaners are at the front line when it comes to
keeping a hospital clean. Cleaning a hospital is
not easy, and it depends on skilled and staffs.

3. The modern matron role:
Securing and assuring higher standards of care
by providing leadership to fellow professionals
and direct-care staff
Ensuring that administrative and support
services are designed and delivered to achieve
the highest standards of care;

4. Modern matrons were given a number of
responsibilities in infection control:
Monitoring ward cleanliness and taking action
to ensure specifications are met;
Preventing hospital-acquired infections;
Appointing and managing ward housekeepers,
who would take day-to-day responsibility for
ensuring, ward cleanliness.

5. Matrons report:
(REPORT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
(Details of the hospital)
PAPER TITLE
WHAT BOARD ACTION IS
REQUIRED?
To provide board assurance that
Matrons are discharging their
responsibilities in relation to:
-Providing a clean environment for
care
-Ensuring best practice in infection
control
-Improving clinical care standards and
treating patients with dignity and
respect.

6. BOARD SUMMARY This report covers the following themes:
 Appointments
 Development of Matrons Forum
 Consistency & Quality Assurance
 Environmental Cleanliness
 Infection Control
 Clinical Standards
 Patient Experience.

7. Moreover written on there:
• IMPACT ASSESSMENT (complete as required)
• Financial
• Quality of clinical services: Matrons Reports are part
of the ‘Ward to Board Clinical Quality Initiative’.
• Workforce
• Reputation
• Relationship to Annual Plan

8. Summery:
1. Appointments:
2. Development of Matrons Forum:. The forum
consists of a formal section, followed by training
and developmental issues. This format has been
maintained, except that in the short term at least,
Matrons are meeting every two months for a
whole day, in order to progress work plan.

9. • 2.1 Consistency and Quality Assurance:
This will provide standardised data for better
comparative evaluation, both over time and across
services. also developing a yearly audit planner,
detailing timeframes for completion of audits,
roles and responsibilities which will ensure
consistency across the Organisation.
• 3. Environmental Cleanliness:
>Trust Inspections

10. • 4. Infection Control:
>Infection Control audits: The Infection Control team
have undertaken Infection Controls audits in preparation
for completing their audits.
• 5 Clinical Standards:
>Integrated Care Records:
ICR audits across the Trust in-patient units continue to
show that generally there have been significant
improvements both in the use and completion of records.
The focus is now to maintain the high standards that
have been achieved in some areas.

11. >Delayed Discharge:
There remain issues with respect to delayed
discharge (where discharge is delayed other than
for clinical reasons) Weekly monitoring meetings
are maintained.
>Clinical Supervision:
Clinical supervision has been a focus of many of
the individual matrons reports. They do plan to
provide further detail on this aspect of monitoring
work in future reports.

12. • 6 Patient Experiences:
Regular organised meetings with in-patient
service users remain prevalent across the Trust
and in some areas. User Voice is actively involved
in most areas. The individual matron’s reports
demonstrate that the views of service users are
taken seriously and that action is taken to address
appropriate issues.

13. Conclusion:
• The individual Matron’s Reports upon which
this report is based confirm that most standards
with respect to cleanliness and control of
infection are met, and generally to a high
standard.