03 September 2008
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is reinforcing its message to NHS staff to clean their hands at the point of care, with the reissue of its alert on hand hygiene.
(…) In addition, the advice includes the internationally recognised World Health Organization (WHO) Five Moments for Hand Hygiene (July 2007).
Related web-site: National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
Related web-site: WHO: “A new and exciting concept in hand hygiene improvement has been developed by the WHO team and the University Hospitals of Geneva. Developed around a user-centred design approach incorporating strategies of human factors engineering, cognitive behaviour science and elements of social marketing, the Five Moments approach is central to the WHO multifaceted hand hygiene improvement strategy. “My five moments for hand hygiene’: a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene” was published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, September 2007″ Publication and other tarining materials/films available from WHO
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