The WHO approach to hand hygiene improvement

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The WHO approach to hand hygiene improvement
how your healthcare facility can help
5 Parts 5 Steps 5 Moments
The Advanced Draft of the first ever WHO
Guidelines focusing solely on hand hygiene is now
available accompanied by a user-friendly,
innovative pack of supporting tools. The full
toolkit is available exclusively to any
healthcare facility enrolling as a Complementary
Test Site (CTS)
The Five-Part Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement
Strategy

• Based on the best available international
  evidence of the new WHO Guidelines on
• Hand Hygiene in Health Care (Advanced Draft) the
  five part multimodal strategy
• offers the most comprehensive method for hand
  hygiene improvement. The WHO
• Guidelines are a must for any facility interested
  in changing staff hand hygiene
• behaviour. The strategy is centred around a
  system change involving alcohol
• based handrub at the point of patient care.

The Five Step Implementation Schedule

• Emerging from the guidelines is a simple,
  five-step framework for implementation.
• This invaluable resource turns the guidelines
  into a set of actions, which can be
• implemented in a logical sequence, each step
  designed to improve reliability in
• staff hand hygiene compliance and therefore stop
  the spread of infection. The
• Guide to Implementation is available exclusively
  to CTSs on enrolment.

The Five Moments for Hand Hygiene
A revolutionary approach to increasing compliance
is now available And accessible via the website.
The Five Moments for Hand Hygiene Simplifies
previously complex indications and act as a
robust training and promotional tool. From this
point forward, it should be possible to make the
indications for hand hygiene universally clear
and understandable.
To get hold of your copy of the Guidelines, go to
http//www.who.int/patientsafety/information_centr
e/ghhad_download/en/index.html
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To find out how to enrol as a Complementary Test
Site (CTS) visit the GPSC website
http//www.who.int/gpsc/country_work/pilot_testing
_info/en/index.html

• "Complementary Test Sites are
• in a unique position to shape
• the final version of the WHO
• Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in
• Health Care. We urge any
• Facility from any WHO Region -
• enrol now. Whether you have
• already begun to focus on hand
• hygiene or are starting from the
• beginning, these tools offer
• significant help. Your feedback
• really does count."
• (Professor Didier Pittet,
• Leader of the First Global
• Patient Safety Challenge)

• Enrolment is easy
• Fill in your electronic submission now via the
  WHO WAPS webpage www.who.int/gpsc/country_work/app
  lication_form/en/index.html
• What is the advantage of becoming a CTS?
• You gain exclusive access to
• the full range of tools required to implement the
  WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy.
• a web-based community platform.
• You will agree to
• undertake evaluation of a limited set of
  parameters during the implementation period
• prepare a short written report at the end of the
  implementation
• Results and feedback form a critical part of the
  global evaluation of the Clean Care is Safer
• Care initiative and will feed into a final report
  about the achievements of the first GPSC.

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