Award-winning approaches to improving hand hygiene compliance are being highlighted for their contributions to national efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infection (HCAI).
A range of award-winning hand hygiene initiatives are helping to drive improvement in patient safety around the UK.
At the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, for example, efforts have included the deployment of an innovative tracking technology system, as part of the Trust’s ‘Safe Hands’ programme, an organisation-wide, Government-funded programme that aims to improve staff compliance with hand-washing standards through the use of TeleTracking’s Real Time Locating System (RTLS).
The use of RTLS technology supports national guidelines that put hand hygiene at the top of the list of measures to help prevent the spread of HCAIs, which cause 5,000 deaths in the UK each year. The RTLS implementation is particularly timely in light of recent calls from the Medical Technology Group for the Department of Health to do more to promote the use of technology to support infection prevention and control.
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