Next Generation Bathing

新一代洗浴（NGB）系统结合了多种技术，为护理环境中的清洁提供了完全颠覆性的解决方案，使这一过程在2019冠状病毒病的世界中更加安全。**主要的创新**是将已经开发的四种应用于其他行业的工艺集成在一起。清洗养老院的居民和需要护理的人对个人和护理人员都有很大的风险。**Covid-19使现有的问题变得危险**，因为目前的辅助洗澡需要密切接触，护理人员将手放入可能含有粪便和尿液的脏洗澡水中以清洁患者。目前洗澡时护理人员或病人受到污染的可能性很高，**53% of Covid-19 patients present a positive faecal PCR test\[15,16\]** and 82% are still positive up to 11 days after their respiratory test is negative\[16,17\].This **challenge is urgent** as during the Covid-19 crisis to 12/6/20 there have been 19,394 resident deaths \[4\], as the main risk group is the elderly, and 7% of care home staff testing positive \[5\]:\* We must improve the carers job because we have a deficit of 77,000 care workers \[8\] and 40% staff turnover\* Changes post-Brexit will deter the overseas workers the care industry currently relies upon\* Job satisfaction and safety is important to recruit UK workers\* The over 85 years population will grow by 30% from 1.64 million to 2.13 million by 2030 \[1\].The Next Generation Bathing system will remove or significantly reduce detergent from the cleaning process which will support the **environment, decarbonisation and the circular economy**. Detergent accounts for 27% of the 105,000tonnes Phosporous/year discharged in UK\[19\].The project will be completed under the full control of Astor-Bannerman but augmenting our market leading 28 years of experience developing new products for assisted bathing. Astor-Bannerman brings the VOC, bath development, system integration and the route to market.Astor-Bannerman already has **market reach as the market leader** in social services bathing (estimated 30% market share) and our subsidiary has between 45% and 20% market share in care homes in different European countries. Our secondary market is export and we already have distributors in the USA and Australia and we are engaged with UKTI for export.This **design builds upon a trial Astor-Bannerman completed in 2019** which demonstrated effectiveness but a need to add more energy to agitate the dirt on the skin and also a need to remove the scum from the surface during bathing and will deliver a **demonstrator**.Next Generation Bathing system supports the ambition for Astor-Bannerman to be the expert, leading company in assisted bathing. This grant enables a significant development in the technical knowledge of the company to respond to Covid and accelerate the long-term vision for Astor-Bannerman to be the expert, leading company in assisted bathing.

The **Next Generation Bathing** (NGB) system combines a number of technologies to deliver a completely disruptive solution to cleaning a person in a care environment making the process safer in a Covid-19 world. The **main innovation** is integrating four processes already developed for applications in other sectors.Washing care home residents and people who require care holds significant risk to both the individuals and the carer. **Covid-19 made an existing problem dangerous** as currently assisted bathing involves close contact and the carer putting their hands into the dirty bath water that may contain faeces and urine to clean the patient. The likelihood of contamination of carer or patient during current bathing is high, **53% of Covid-19 patients present a positive faecal PCR test\[15,16\]** and 82% are still positive up to 11 days after their respiratory test is negative\[16,17\].This **challenge is urgent** as during the Covid-19 crisis to 12/6/20 there have been 19,394 resident deaths \[4\], as the main risk group is the elderly, and 7% of care home staff testing positive \[5\]:\* We must improve the carers job because we have a deficit of 77,000 care workers \[8\] and 40% staff turnover\* Changes post-Brexit will deter the overseas workers the care industry currently relies upon\* Job satisfaction and safety is important to recruit UK workers\* The over 85 years population will grow by 30% from 1.64 million to 2.13 million by 2030 \[1\].The Next Generation Bathing system will remove or significantly reduce detergent from the cleaning process which will support the **environment, decarbonisation and the circular economy**. Detergent accounts for 27% of the 105,000tonnes Phosporous/year discharged in UK\[19\].The project will be completed under the full control of Astor-Bannerman but augmenting our market leading 28 years of experience developing new products for assisted bathing. Astor-Bannerman brings the VOC, bath development, system integration and the route to market.Astor-Bannerman already has **market reach as the market leader** in social services bathing (estimated 30% market share) and our subsidiary has between 45% and 20% market share in care homes in different European countries. Our secondary market is export and we already have distributors in the USA and Australia and we are engaged with UKTI for export.This **design builds upon a trial Astor-Bannerman completed in 2019** which demonstrated effectiveness but a need to add more energy to agitate the dirt on the skin and also a need to remove the scum from the surface during bathing and will deliver a **demonstrator**.Next Generation Bathing system supports the ambition for Astor-Bannerman to be the expert, leading company in assisted bathing. This grant enables a significant development in the technical knowledge of the company to respond to Covid and accelerate the long-term vision for Astor-Bannerman to be the expert, leading company in assisted bathing.