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Dear All,
Find below information from WHO in relation to the forthcoming 5 May 2017, WHO Hand Hygiene Day.
Please feel free to circulate to your colleagues who may not be on the Australian College of Infection Prevention and Control (ACIPC).
Regards
Glenys
Glenys Harrington
Infection Control Consultancy (ICC)
P.O. Box 6385
Melbourne
Australia, 3004
M: +61 404816434
Dear colleagues
Thank you.
Thank you for once again being supporters of hand hygiene and IPC improvement.
WHO values those experts and organisations around the world that each year support the 5 May movement. No country or health facility can claim to be free of infections and that’s why annually campaigning is one important way to maintain the profile and sustain action.
We kindly ask that you take action now to spread key messages. If there is anything we can do to help you please do not hesitate to ask for exact wording, help with social media messages, quotes, etc. Social media information can be found further down in this email.
All available WHO campaign resources can be found here http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/2017/en/
– Campaign banners that can be used on your web pages or in newsletters remember, a dedicated WHO acknowledgements web page featuring web links of those who have promoted the campaign will shortly be launched as normal. Please post a web link to the campaign web pages to show your support now! Thank you to many of you who have already done this but we do need leading organisations to still do this to raise the campaign profile!
– Five advocacy posters have you printed and used these to raise awareness and get engagement in the campaign? Developed alongside the WHO Collaborating Centre at the University Hospitals Geneva under the leadership of Prof Didier Pittet, they provide a powerful message demonstrating all those who can play their part in improvement and are co-branded with the WHO ‘antibiotics – handle with care’ slogan.
– An activity tool for infection prevention control leads at the facility level, have you disseminated this in support of hand hygiene and IPC improvement?
– An updated short PowerPoint advocacy slide set – please share this with colleagues and use it at any events you are speaking at
– A short engagement document aimed at policy level actors, advocating for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control
– A short animation video about the problem of health care-associated infections and the infection prevention and control solutions – a powerful tool to use whenever you are speaking to any colleagues
A campaign message for you to cascade to others:
Hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) more generally are key weapons in the fight against antibiotic resistance. WHOs 5 May 2017 campaign slogan, Fight antibiotic resistance its in your hands. demonstrates the unity between antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and IPC efforts. IPC leaders need to champion hand hygiene campaigning and progress their journey of integrating WHOs core components for infection prevention and control in every health facility. Everyone can play their part and heres how:
*health workers – clean your hands at the right times
*chief executive officers and managers of health facilities – support hand hygiene campaigning and IPC programmes, to protect patients from antibiotic resistant infections
*policy makers – stop antibiotic resistance spread by demonstrating national support for and commitment to infection prevention.Find out more about WHOs campaign on hand hygiene and IPC http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/2017/en/
WHO social media update
On and around 5 May, WHO will issue social media messages to ensure reach of the campaign. With 3.5 million followers on Twitter alone, each year this is amazing support that means greater impact for the campaign, and hand hygiene awareness around the world. The best way to achieve this reach together is by having a strong voice and using the same #s – #handhygiene #antibioticresistance. By owning the #s we make a strong campaign, and a social movement, and can use analytics to understand how much these #s get used at this time of year. Thank you to those who are already posting messages, and thank you for continuing to do this around 5 May – join us by retweeting @WHO, liking on Facebook, etc, issuing similar messages to WHO but based on your local activities as well as any photographs, and by using the WHO #s! It is also important that you arrange for your organisations to issue messages as well as individuals – thank you for securing this support now.
Ask health facilities to sign up to the campaign here http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/
We still need to demonstrate commitment to the the campaign and hand hygiene improvement to sustain action.
On behalf of Benedetta and the WHO IPC Global Unit, thank you once again.
Claire.
On 31 January 2017 at 14:27, claire kilpatrick wrote:
Dear colleagues
Once again WHO has announced its plans for its global annual hand hygiene campaign, celebrated each year on 5 May. Each year your support helps to ensure the amazing reach and success that is achieved for on-going hand hygiene improvement.
Background:
WHO is asking the world to focus on the fight against antibiotic resistance in the context of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. Hand hygiene is at the core of effective IPC to combat antibiotic resistance, and campaigning each year on or around 5 May is one important part of improving behaviour towards IPC best practices.
WHO recently issued new recommendations explaining what the core components of effective IPC programmes are, and to date hand hygiene is the best example of successful implementation of these components.
Everyone can continue to improving hand hygiene, fighting antibiotic resistance and commit to progressing towards adherence with all of the core components for IPC programmes now. This will result in strong, resilient health systems whatever the situation, whatever the country. Successful multimodal strategies can prevent infection and an infection prevented is an antibiotic treatment avoided!
Find attached the WHO newsletter from January 2017 for more background information.
Key wording for 2017, for you to use to cascade to colleagues around the world:
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2017 – Fight antibiotic resistance – it’s in your hands
Our calls to action are:
*Health workers: Clean your hands at the right times and stop the spread of antibiotic resistance.
*Hospital Chief Executive Officers and Administrators: Lead a year-round infection prevention and control programme to protect your patients from resistant infections.”
*Policy-makers: “Stop antibiotic resistance spread by making infection prevention and hand hygiene a national policy priority.”
*IPC leaders: “Implement WHOs Core Components for infection prevention, including hand hygiene, to combat antibiotic resistance.Start planning your local, national and regional actions now!
Keep up to date with new WHO resources and messages that can be used for both advocacy and infection prevention and control action in your settings http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/
And please remember to ask those health facilities how have not yet registered for the campaign to do so here, it takes just a couple of minutes and demonstrates the world’s energy and commitment to preventing infections http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/
Thank you very much for your support.
Claire.
On behalf of Benedetta Allegranzi
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Claire Kilpatrick
RN, PGDipICN, MSc, MFTM RCPS (Glas)
Consultant to WHO Service Delivery and Safety – Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit
http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/en/
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Claire Kilpatrick
RN, PGDipICN, MSc, MFTM RCPS (Glas)
Consultant to WHO Service Delivery and Safety – Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit
http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/en/
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