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.
Hand sanitisers are OK, but “hand washing is better” – here’s why…
Don’t rely on the convenience of gels at the expense of soap and water Hand [...]
Oct
Celebrating Global Handwashing Day 2019
Why hand washing with soap and water is so vital – for everyone Global Handwashing [...]
Oct
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 [...]
Sep
Australia – call for patient centred approach to hand hygiene
Involving patients in their own care Medical and healthcare facility patients in Australia should be [...]
Jun
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 [...]
May
Hand hygiene crucial in IPC programmes to reduce HCAIs
Focus on the call for universal health coverage (UHC) Effective implementation of infection prevention and [...]
Apr
Open Farm Sunday – why hand wash units are essential
Running and water and liquid soap must be provided LEAF Open Farm Sunday this year [...]
Mar
Essential that hand hygiene facilities are available at the point of care
Tackling sepsis with effective hand washing There are around 250,000 case of sepsis in the UK [...]
Feb