Every year, on 5 May, healthcare providers across the globe join together to celebrate the World Health Organization’s Save Lives: Clean Your Hands campaign. The 2015 campaign focuses on ‘strengthening healthcare systems and delivery – with hand hygiene as the entrance door’, as MIKE SULLIVAN explains.
Clean Care is Safer Care, the World Health Organization (WHO) programme aimed at reducing healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, having launched in 2005. Commitment, energy and innovation from the healthcare industry has contributed significantly to the success of this vital global patient safety programme and campaign.
Call to action
The central tenet of the programme is the importance of clean hands in healthcare and it has had an extremely positive impact on the sector since its inception. Save Lives: Clean Your Hands, followed four years later, in 2009. Seen as a natural ‘next phase’ and extension of Clean Care is Safer Care, it moved the call to action from specific countries to individual healthcare facilities across the globe. Using 5 May as a key date, Save Lives: Clean Your Hands provides a focus point and vehicle for promoting the hand hygiene cause.
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