Care Homes can avoid Legionella risk through Waterman Environmental's 'Rapid Detection' FASTek service

Legionella is a particularly worrying disease for the elderly care environment to have to encounter, with the effects of infection far greater upon individuals whose immune systems might not be working to their full capacity. Fortunately, Waterman Environmental Group, the UK’s leading water treatment experts, can now offer a FASTek Rapid Detection service that ensures care homes are compliant with current legislation and allows for a speedy response to Legionella outbreaks that vastly reduces the chances of residents becoming infected.

Health experts agree that an early diagnosis is essential in avoiding deaths relating to Legionella, or Legionnaire’s disease as it is also known, though many care homes currently rely on 10-14 day testing periods that can make all the difference in respect of residents’ well-being. FASTek is the world’s first UKAS accredited rapid method for the detection of Legionella allowing outbreaks to be identified within 4 hours of a positive sample being confirmed and without a doubt is the most significant development in Legionella testing since the bacteria was first discovered 30 years ago.

The FASTek service can guide care home owners in the risk assessments and legal requirements they are expected to meet, while securing a testing and treatment service that can safeguard the sector from further Legionellosis infections, of which an estimated 5,000 people a year in the UK currently encounter.

More information on the science behind the FASTek service is contained in the attached pdf document, while our helpful team can be easily contacted via our website: watermanenvironmentalgroup.com or by telephone at 01543 261000.