Category Archives: Medical and healthcare

Portable hand wash stations and mobile sinks and basins can provide effective hand washing where it’s required – at the point of need! A key element in the fight against norovirus and C-Diff.

Wash with soap and water: hand sanitisers “may not be as effective as people think”

Sanitisers must evaporate to work effectively says GP Germs carrying the influenza virus can withstand [...]

Australia – call for patient centred approach to hand hygiene

Involving patients in their own care Medical and healthcare facility patients in Australia should be [...]

Call for hand washing with soap and water as norovirus outbreaks increase in east of England

66 percent increase in cases Norovirus outbreaks – of the illness sometimes referred to as [...]

Hand hygiene crucial in IPC programmes to reduce HCAIs

Focus on the call for universal health coverage (UHC) Effective implementation of infection prevention and [...]

Open Farm Sunday – why hand wash units are essential

Running and water and liquid soap must be provided LEAF Open Farm Sunday this year [...]

Essential that hand hygiene facilities are available at the point of care

Tackling sepsis with effective hand washing There are around 250,000 case ofĀ sepsis in the UK [...]

Antibac gel vs soap and water – which was the winner?

ā€œIf it was my choice I would go with hand washingā€ Doctors Chris and Xand [...]

BMJ highlights poor paramedic hand hygiene compliance

Ambulance staff study undertaken across 4 countries The British Medical JournalĀ has expressed concerns about “remarkably [...]