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.

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 [...]

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

“If it was my choice I would go with hand washing” Doctors Chris and Xand [...]

BMJ highlights poor paramedic hand hygiene compliance

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

Handwashing more important than ever in the face of antibiotic resistance

“Urgent” global threat posed by drug-resistant superbugs The UK government has announced a plan which [...]

Norovirus alerts around the UK – why you should wash with soap and water

Infection control centres around effective hand hygiene The warning that “Only hand-washing will prevent spread [...]

Most people don’t wash hands correctly – if they wash at all!

Half a minute is all it takes for an effective hand wash Many people are [...]

Why hand washing is essential after every bathroom break

World Toilet Day 2018 campaign emphasis Effective hand washing measures – with soap and water [...]

Facilities managers: the importance of staff hand washing – and how it can be made more effective

…and why washing facilities need to be in the right place Staff productivity and wellbeing [...]