The award-winning Tork VR Clean Hands Training is now available for free on multiple devices. This means that healthcare professionals can train on hand hygiene routines anywhere, at any time. To ...

A team of nursing academics has created a new online training course for fellow health and care professionals about the importance of hand hygiene and how it helps combat coronavirus. The new ...

A graphic showing exactly how long you need to wash your hands for to remove any trace of germs is wowing hundreds around the country, some of whom are not practising good hygiene. The experiment, ...

Healthcare workers improved their hand-washing technique by using an automated hand hygiene training system in one study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. In the study, nearly ...

A new app that aims to help young people learn the importance of hand washing has been launched. The De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) researchers behind A Germ’s Journey has teamed up with ...

The computer on wheels, called SureWash Elite, uses augmented reality to assess hand hygiene techniques and infection control knowledge as well as provide interactive training and quizzes. SureWash ...

World Hand Hygiene Day is observed on May 5 every year. This global event aims to promote the importance of hand hygiene in preventing the spread of diseases and infections. Every year World Hand ...

The course, and associated promotional materials, reviews key concepts of hand hygiene and other standard precautions to prevent healthcare-associated infections. Topics addressed include: What are ...

Christine McManus reckons that when it comes to hand hygiene, ambulance services are around 10 years behind hospitals. “The crews are out and about, they are in patients’ homes, they are now doing ...

NHS Grampian has been told it must give staff enough time to complete mandatory hand hygiene courses - after inspectors found just 9% of staff on one hospital ward had completed them. It follows an ...