Tag Archives: infection prevention

Call for renewed hand washing focus in long term care facilities

The challenges of improving hand hygiene practices in care homes The challenges faced by care [...]

Hand wash basins must be for that purpose only says updated guidance

Soap and water hand washing is essential in many circumstances Washing hands under running water [...]

Guidance stresses frequent soap and water hand washing for returning children

Welsh government gives hand hygiene a very high priority Vulnerable children will be joined by [...]

Why Infection Preventionists are more important than ever – and will continue to be so

2020 was the year that infection control techniques became the biggest global issue The evolving [...]

20% of Australians don’t wash their hands after toilet use

Why using running water and soap is essential There is a particularly effective ways of [...]

Hand hygiene crucial in IPC programmes to reduce HCAIs

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

Norovirus across the UK – use soap and water not gels

Outbreaks of bug being reported around the country Norovirus – the so-called “winter vomiting bug” seems [...]

Infection prevention – the importance of hand hygiene in the workplace

“Only 5 percent of people washed their hands enough to kill infection” Hand hygiene in [...]