Next Generation Bathing

**下一代沐浴**系统结合了许多技术，为护理环境中的清洁提供了一个完全颠覆性的解决方案，使新冠肺炎世界中的洗澡过程更安全。**主要创新**是整合已经为其他部门的应用开发的四个流程。洗涤疗养院居民和需要护理的人对个人和照顾者都存在重大风险。**新冠肺炎让现有的问题变得危险**因为目前的辅助洗澡需要近距离接触，护理员将手放入可能含有粪便的脏洗澡水中为患者清洗。目前洗澡时被照顾者或患者污染的可能性很高，**53%的新冠肺炎患者粪便聚合酶链式反应呈阳性，而82%的患者在呼吸测试呈阴性后11天仍呈阳性。这一**挑战是紧迫的**因为在新冠肺炎危机期间至12/6/20期间，已有19,394名居民死亡\[4]，因为主要的风险群体是老年人，和7%的护理之家员工检测呈阳性：\*我们必须改善护理人员的工作，因为我们有77,000名护理人员的短缺\[8\]和40%的员工流动率\*英国退欧后的变化将阻止护理行业目前依赖的海外工人\*工作满意度和安全对招聘英国工人很重要\*到2030年，85岁以上的人口将增长30%，从164万增加到213万\[1]。下一代沐浴系统将从清洁过程中去除或显著减少清洁剂，这将支持**环境、脱碳和循环经济**。洗涤剂占英国每年排放的105,000吨磷酸盐的27%[19]该项目将在Astor-Bannerman的完全控制下完成，但扩大了我们市场领先的28年开发辅助沐浴新产品的经验。Astor-Bannerman将VOC、卫浴开发、系统集成和路线推向市场。Astor-Bannerman已经在社会服务沐浴领域拥有**市场触角**作为市场领导者**(估计市场份额为30%)，我们的子公司在不同的欧洲国家拥有45%至20%的养老院市场份额。我们的二级市场是出口，我们已经在美国和澳大利亚拥有分销商，我们正在与英国国际贸易公司合作出口。这个**设计建立在2019年完成的Astor-Bannerman试验**的基础上，该试验证明了有效性，但需要增加更多的能量来搅动皮肤上的污垢，还需要在洗澡时去除皮肤表面的浮渣，并将提供**演示**。下一代沐浴系统支持了Astor-Bannerman成为辅助沐浴专家和领先公司的雄心。这笔赠款使该公司在应对Covid方面的技术知识有了重大发展，并加速了Astor-Bannerman成为辅助沐浴领域的专家和领先公司的长期愿景。

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.