This year's campaign, called ‘No action today; no cure tomorrow - make the WHO 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene part of protecting your patients from resistant germs' - centred around a day of action in May and involved healthcare professional right across the world.
The risks posed by AMR make hand hygiene even more crucial in healthcare settings. Hospitals are well versed on the benefits of promoting good hand hygiene practice to staff and visitors - but the best results are achieved by providing ‘total solutions' encompassing solid programming, products and formulations, combined with the WHO's multimodal implementation programme. Hand hygiene solution providers, such as those involved in ‘Private Organisations for Patient Safety; (POPS) can then support this approach with effective education/communication campaigns, plus on-going support and training for staff.