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Half of healthcare facilities globally lack basic hygiene services
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Half of healthcare facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these facilities, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF. Around 3.85 billion people use these facilities, putting them at greater risk of infection, including 688 million people who receive care at facilities with no hygiene services at all. “Hygiene facilities and practices in health care settings are non-negotiable. Their improvement is essential to pandemic recovery, prevention and preparedness. Hygiene in health care faci- Posted
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Key points in this article include: Glove misuse contributes to the transmission of healthcare-associated infectionsAppropriate and timely hand hygiene is essential in preventing transmission of infectionsEmotion, socialisation and personal preference influence health professionals’ glove useFear about contracting Covid-19 has dominated decision-making about glove useGlove misuse may have increased rates of hospital-acquired infections during the Covid-19 pandemic- Posted
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Royal College of Nursing: Are you glove aware?
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Questions & answers: World Hand Hygiene Day 2022
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Webinar: World Hand Hygiene Day 2022
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When people seek healthcare, they are hoping to get better. Too often, however, they end up getting a new, avoidable infection – which is often resistant to antimicrobials and can sometimes even be fatal. When a health facility’s “quality and safety climate or culture” values hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC), this results in both patients and health workers feeling protected and cared for. That is why the World Hand Hygiene Day (WHHD) theme for 2022 is a “health care quality and safety climate or culture” that values hand hygiene and IPC, and the slogan is “U- Posted
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Hand hygiene has had a high prominence in the context of COVID-19 during the past year. World Hand Hygiene Day, celebrated each year on the 5 May, and led by the World Health Organization (WHO), presents an annual opportunity to keep this important patient safety intervention firmly on the international and national agenda beyond a global pandemic. This year we are prompted not to forget the critical times for hand hygiene, and particularly the valuable role that healthcare workers and all those who support them play, in achieving effective hand hygiene action at the point of care. Campai- Posted
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WHO: Your 5 moments for hand hygiene (5 May 2009)
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World Economic Forum: COVID Action Platform
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The spread of COVID-19 demands global cooperation among governments, international organisations and the business community. This multistakeholder cooperation is at the centre of the World Economic Forum’s mission. The new COVID Action Platform will focus on three priorities: Galvanise the global business community for collective action. Protect people’s livelihoods and facilitate business continuity. Mobilise cooperation and business support for the COVID-19 response.- Posted
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NHS: How to wash your hands
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WHO: Guidelines on hand hygiene
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My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene The My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene approach defines the key moments when healthcare workers should perform hand hygiene. This evidence-based, field-tested, user-centred approach is designed to be easy to learn, logical and applicable in a wide range of settings. This approach recommends health-care workers to clean their hands: before touching a patient, before clean/aseptic procedures, after body fluid exposure/risk, after touching a patient, and after touching patient surroundings.- Posted
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Coronavirus: Visitors steal hand sanitiser gel from hospital
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Visitors to a hospital are stealing hand sanitising gel daily – as demand for the product surges amid fears over coronavirus. Bottles have been taken from patients' beds and dispensers ripped off walls at Northampton General Hospital. Bosses said the gel was "disappearing every day" and they have had to limit the supply on wards. "Nothing like this has ever happened in all the years we've had the gel," said a hospital spokeswoman. "Over the past week we've seen stocks on wards disappear from the end of beds every single day," Sally-Anne Watts, associate communications director,