Dear Colleagues,

In this edition:

·       Message from Professor Didier Pittet

·       Five steps to 5 May - What's YOUR Plan? - Only 2 steps left!

·       Other support for your 5 May 2012 activities

·       Health-care facility registrations for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - Where are we now? What can we achieve together in 2012?

·       Free April 2012 WHO teleclass

Message from Professor Didier Pittet

"As a lead in hand hygiene improvement for many, many years, I am once again proud to be part of SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands in 2012. I am excited to say that WHO has again supported the availability of a video recording where I present key messages on the importance of hand hygiene and celebrating this global annual campaign together once again on 5 May 2012. On this date I will be in Lebanon, for a special event where the country will pledge its commitment to reducing health care-associated infection through hand hygiene. This will be an exciting regional event. I will also broadcast my annual SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands teleclass then. As in previous years, the main objective of 5 May is to encourage even more commitment and increased registrations from health-care facilities. Again, I repeat my call to those willing to invest their time and ask them to consider taking on the role of “hand hygiene ambassador” to promote greater awareness worldwide. On behalf of all patients around the world, I urge you to carry on your great work and thank you for your continued support in improving the safety and quality of their care."

See Professor Pittet's video which will be uploaded shortly and use it for your SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands events.

You can join Professor Pittet's free teleclass at 2.30 pm CET on 5 May 2012. It is entitled "Keeping the hand hygiene agenda alive: acting on data and the influence of global surveys" and can be accessed through www.webbertraining.com. You can also listen to it afterwards via a recorded version.

Five steps to 5 May - What's YOUR Plan? - Only 2 steps left!

Here is what WHO is asking you to do in support of the global annual campaign SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, aimed at maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care to reduce health care-associated infection and enhance patient safety worldwide. There are five steps in the 2012 call to action heading to 5 May. This month WHO highlights what you can be doing in April.

• January – What's YOUR Plan?: have you used the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework (HHSAF) to know how your facility is progressing with hand hygiene improvement? If not, use it now as the focus for 5 May is on YOUR Plans, based on your HHSAF results! http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/hhsa_framework/en/index.html

• February – What's YOUR Plan?: Have you carefully analysed your own WHO HHSAF results? Based on these results, it's now time to plan your actions to improve and sustain hand hygiene! Use the WHO Targeted Action Plan Templates that will be provided shortly to guide YOUR plans!

• March – What's YOUR Plan?: Have you made YOUR facility's plan? Are you discussing and engaging with other key players for success and who can help with your action plan to ensure success? Identify at least one or more actions that can be accomplished by or on 5 May 2012 to show YOUR facility's commitment to improving hand hygiene!

• April – What's YOUR Plan?: Is your targeted plan ready for use now, is everyone engaged in supporting its success? If yes, place your Action Plan on your web pages and share the web site address with savelives@who.int so it can feature on WHO web pages. Are you ready for YOUR 5 May activities/celebrations focused on one or more selected actions from your plan?

• May – What's YOUR Plan?: Celebrate on 5 or 7 May! Involve staff and the facility's leadership in your selected action(s) and/or report their results! If you haven't yet, issue YOUR targeted Action Plan, and progress your facility's hand hygiene improvement now, sharing your web page link featuring your plans with WHO to be featured on their pages.

Other support for your 5 May 2012 activities

WHO Template Action Plans are available on the WHO web pages in English, Spanish and French. These template action plans strongly link to the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework.  Reviewing your results and mapping these to actions is critical. The template plans facilitate the development of your action plan, by outlining key steps to be taken whether your Framework results are Inadequate/Basic, Intermediate or Advanced/Leadership. The important, simple, yet targeted points will help you to execute plans aimed at further hand hygiene improvements in your health-care facility.

The WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey results will be issued on 5 May. Look at how your region is progressing, use this information at local level. For information, there have been almost 70 000 downloads of this Self-Assessment Framework from the WHO web site - it is both a powerful and popular tool - you can still download and use this if you haven’t yet done so.

New WHO guidance document on hand hygiene in outpatient care

WHO is delighted to announce the release of the new WHO Guide on Hand Hygiene in Outpatient and Home-based Care and Long-term Care Facilities, triggered by the high demand from countries eager to achieve hand hygiene best practices in all settings where care is provided outside hospitals. Based on available scientific evidence and the input of many experts worldwide, this document provides conceptual and practical guidance for the application of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy and the My Five Moments approach in health-care settings where patients are not admitted as inpatients to a hospital. Access the Guide available from 10 April at http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/ and let your colleagues in outpatient settings know about it! Hand hygiene can be celebrated and promoted beyond hospital settings from 5 May this year!

Health-care facility registrations for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - Where are we now? What can we achieve together in 2012?

•       WHO has so far secured 14 904 health-care facility registrations in 150 countries.

•       There are, however, still a number of countries without any registered health-care facilities. To help you see how registrations are progressing WHO will shortly launch a map of the world to highlight the number of registrations from each country per 10 million population.

•       Help WHO get over 155 countries with at least one health-care facility registered by 5 May 2012! Follow the WHO web pages to see how we are progressing with this target.

•       Did you manage to get one new health-care facility to register for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands in the last month? Could you manage to get at least one more during April?

•       Share your plans and activities - sharing is part of global learning. To promote 5 May 2012, we will feature your web pages focused on SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, including your action plans, so please share them with us now via savelives@who.int.

Free April 2012 WHO teleclass series on infection control 

You can register for the next teleclass at www.webbertraining.com It is entitled "Implementing change: The technical & socio-adaptive aspects of preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection" by S. Saint, Ann Arbour, USA, and will take place on 17 April at 12:30 pm (NYT).

Thank you for your ongoing commitment and support to WHO for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. It is nothing without you! Cascade this newsletter or use messages within it to communicate with your colleagues and contacts.

WHO Patient Safety: Clean Care is Safer Care team

Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action

The International Federation of Infection Control welcomes nominations from Member Societies, as well as Patron and Associate Members for the:

IFIC Martin S. Favero 2012 Award

for Active Contribution to Global Infection Prevention & Control 

This award has been created to honour the international contributions of Martin S. Favero, Ph.D. in the field of infection prevention & control and is kindly sponsored by Advanced Sterilization Products, Irvine, CA.

It aims to recognize the achievements of those working in the field of infection prevention and control,  who have made significant lifetime contributions to global infection prevention.  One recipient will be selected each year and will receive the award at the annual conference of International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC). 

Eligibility 

Persons eligible for the Martin S. Favero Award should be professionals practicing infection prevention and control within a health care setting for at least three years. 

They should additionally meet the following criteria: 

1.    A recognized expert who has made significant contributions to the field of infection prevention and control at an international level, especially in developing countries and/or limited resource regions. 

2.    Evidence of outstanding and significant contributions to the fields of infection prevention as evident by publications (e.g., peer-reviewed scientific publications, chapters in professional texts, etc) and/or presentations at national and international professional conferences.

3.    Achieved international recognition as an investigator and authority in infection prevention. 

4.    Reputation for giving an excellent presentation. 

5.    Must not have received the award in previous years. 

Application/Nominations 

• Nominations are solicited from IFIC member societies as well as Patron & Associate Members.
• Nominees will be judged by their past performance and future promise by an appointed selection committee which will examine the curriculum vitae, a nomination letter and at least one letter of support.

Nomination Deadline 

Nominations must be submitted on or before 18 May 2012. 

Nomination Process

• Completed applications should be addressed to the Chair, International Federation of Infection Control through an email sent to awards@theific.org <mailto:awards@theific.org> . Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
• The email should include:
• Full details of the nominating member.
• A nominator's written explanation for choosing the candidate
• A current curriculum vitae that includes research activities, publications, international activities relevant to the subject of infection prevention.
• One letter of support and two professional references; each professional reference must include name, title, address, phone number and email address, if available.

Selection Process

• The IFIC Chair will assemble a team of at least three (3) persons to serve as the selection committee for this award.
• The selection committee will review the applications using a scoring grid based on pre-established criteria and scoring guidelines.
• The winning nominee will then be submitted to the Chair for approval.

 Award Process:

• The winner will be notified of the decision by 30 June 2012, and invited to attend the annual IFIC conference, present the Marty S. Favero keynote lecture and receive the Award.
• IFIC will also inform Martin S. Favero (or his designee) and Advanced Sterilization Products of the winner.
• The person nominating the winner is sent a letter notifying them that their nominee won and thanking them for their efforts.
• All nominees are sent a letter acknowledging their consideration for the award.

In this edition:

• WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey- deadline approaching
• Getting ready for 5 May 2012!
• WHO teleclasses - 2011 & 2012
• Some highlights of the year

WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey status report

This is your last chance to be part of our global survey which will close on 31 December 2011! If you have not yet completed the Framework and submitted your results to WHO please go to http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/hhsaf_submissions/en/index.html or send an email to WHOframework.survey@who.int

WHO will undertake analysis to present results on the total number of completed Frameworks by WHO Region in 2012. Look for updates on this as we approach 5 May 2012.

Getting ready for 5 May 2012!

Since announcing our call to action, ‘What's YOUR plan?’ we have been working on our plans including key messages and information that will be issued in the months leading up to 5 May 2012 to support your actions. More information, including a proposal to help you develop your action plan based on the Framework results will be announced in January.

In the meantime, set yourself a goal of getting one new health-care facility to register for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands by the new year!

So far we have 14 444 registered health-care facilities, from 150 countries!!

WHO free teleclasses

Teleclasses recordings from 2011 can still be accessed and a new very rich schedule for 2012 is available, courtesy of Webber Training is now available. Next year the teleclasses will be held monthly and will focus on emerging key topics in infection control, including the perspective of settings with limited resources. Take advantage of this excellent virtual training opportunity to keep up to date alongside colleagues from around the globe!

Some highlights of the year

This year we have seen a number of key infection prevention and control events that have raised the profile of our important work even more. This included the inaugural International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control event in Geneva, the annual International Federation for Infection Control in Venice and many others that attracted a large international audience. We enjoy meeting those of you who have made it to these events and it is always encouraging to see so much work presented on hand hygiene! We hope next year will see even more publications including on use of the Framework.

Thank you for your ongoing commitment and support to WHO for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. Seasonal greetings to all those who are celebrating this December.

Claire Kilpatrick
On behalf of WHO Patient Safety: Clean Care is Safer Care

Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action

Enquiries: savelives@who.int
WHO Clean Care is Safer Care
Providing WHO information has to be balanced with available resources, both human and financial. The WHO Patient Safety Programme, including the Clean Care is Safer Care team, do their best to translate their most relevant tools and documents. Regretfully, we are not currently in a position to translate this SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter into French or Spanish. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and hope that you will remain a valued reader of the newsletter.

In this edition:

• WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey- deadline approaching
• Getting ready for 5 May 2012!
• WHO teleclasses - 2011 & 2012
• Some highlights of the year

WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey status report

This is your last chance to be part of our global survey which will close on 31 December 2011! If you have not yet completed the Framework and submitted your results to WHO please go to http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/hhsaf_submissions/en/index.html or send an email to WHOframework.survey@who.int

WHO will undertake analysis to present results on the total number of completed Frameworks by WHO Region in 2012. Look for updates on this as we approach 5 May 2012.

Getting ready for 5 May 2012!

Since announcing our call to action, ‘What's YOUR plan?’ we have been working on our plans including key messages and information that will be issued in the months leading up to 5 May 2012 to support your actions. More information, including a proposal to help you develop your action plan based on the Framework results will be announced in January.

In the meantime, set yourself a goal of getting one new health-care facility to register for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands by the new year!

So far we have 14 444 registered health-care facilities, from 150 countries!!

WHO free teleclasses

Teleclasses recordings from 2011 can still be accessed and a new very rich schedule for 2012 is available, courtesy of Webber Training is now available. Next year the teleclasses will be held monthly and will focus on emerging key topics in infection control, including the perspective of settings with limited resources. Take advantage of this excellent virtual training opportunity to keep up to date alongside colleagues from around the globe!

Some highlights of the year

This year we have seen a number of key infection prevention and control events that have raised the profile of our important work even more. This included the inaugural International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control event in Geneva, the annual International Federation for Infection Control in Venice and many others that attracted a large international audience. We enjoy meeting those of you who have made it to these events and it is always encouraging to see so much work presented on hand hygiene! We hope next year will see even more publications including on use of the Framework.

Thank you for your ongoing commitment and support to WHO for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. Seasonal greetings to all those who are celebrating this December.

Claire Kilpatrick
On behalf of WHO Patient Safety: Clean Care is Safer Care

Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action

Enquiries: savelives@who.int
WHO Clean Care is Safer Care
Providing WHO information has to be balanced with available resources, both human and financial. The WHO Patient Safety Programme, including the Clean Care is Safer Care team, do their best to translate their most relevant tools and documents. Regretfully, we are not currently in a position to translate this SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter into French or Spanish. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and hope that you will remain a valued reader of the newsletter.

La délivrance d'informations provenant de l'OMS dépend des ressources disponibles, à la fois humaines et financières. Le Programme OMS pour la Sécurité des Patients, comprenant l'équipe "Un Soin Propre est un Soin plus sûr", fait de son mieux pour traduire ses outils et documents les plus importants. Malheureusement, nous ne sommes pas actuellement en mesure de traduire la lettre d'information mensuelle de SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands en français et en espagnol. Nous nous excusons pour ce désagrément et espérons que vous resterez un fidèle lecteur de la lettre d'information à l'avenir.

La información generada por la OMS, depende de los recursos humanos y económicos disponibles. El Programa por la Seguridad del Paciente, y el equipo de la iniciativa "Cuidado Limpio es Cuidado Seguro", realizan sus mejores esfuerzos para traducir el material y documentos de mayor importancia. Desafortunadamente, por el momento no contamos con la facilidad de traducir el boletin mensual SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands en francés o español. Le pedimos disculpas por cualquier inconveniente que podamos causarle, y esperamos seguir contando con su valiosa participación como lector de nuestro boletin.

Voorlichtingsfilm (november 2011)

Norovirus, je ziet het niet maar het is er wel.

www.ggd.rotterdam.nl/filmnorovirus

Film over norovirus

Deze zeven minuten durende film is bedoeld voor zorgmedewerkers in verpleeghuizen en woonzorgcentra die te maken krijgen met een uitbraak van norovirus. De film laat zien hoe het virus zich verspreidt en wat medewerkers zelf kunnen doen om zichzelf en anderen te beschermen, met als belangrijkste maatregel het handen wassen.

De meeste uitbraken van diarree en/of braken in zorginstellingen worden veroorzaakt door norovirus en dit virus is zeer besmettelijk. Daarom is het verstandig vanaf het begin van een uitbraak maatregelen te nemen alsof het norovirus is, ook al is dat nog niet zeker. De praktische mogelijkheden voor de toepassing van de landelijke richtlijnen verschillen per instelling en per locatie. Deze film biedt daarom basale informatie, die de eigen protocollen en specifieke voorlichting van een zorginstelling kan ondersteunen.

Ontstaan

Het idee voor de film komt voort uit de wens van instellingen om de papieren richtlijnen meer tot leven te brengen voor de praktisch ingestelde zorgmedewerkers. De inhoud is gebaseerd op gesprekken met de doelgroep, praktijkobservaties en de LCI- en WIP richtlijnen. Zowel WIP (Werkgroep Infectie Preventie) als LCHV (Landelijk Centrum Hygiëne en Veiligheid) waren vertegenwoordigd in de projectgroep en nauw betrokken bij het maken van de film. De film is gerealiseerd door GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond met financiering van het RIVM.

Evaluatie

De film is geëvalueerd op vier afdelingen waar een uitbraak van norovirus heerste. Ondanks de verhoogde werkdruk was het haalbaar om de film minimaal één keer per dag aan medewerkers te laten zien, meestal tijdens de ochtendoverdracht. Omdat de computers van de verpleging geen geluidvoorzieningen hadden, werd de film afgespeeld op de dvd-speler in de huiskamer van de bewoners of via een laptop.

De film werd door de medewerkers van deze afdelingen beoordeeld met een acht. Daarnaast gaf 91% van de medewerkers aan dat ze beter begrijpen hoe norovirus zich verspreidt en 88% van hen zei de maatregelen beter te begrijpen.

Citaat van een teamleider;

“Het kost je dan zeven minuten maar dat zijn wel zeven informatieve minuten!”

Implementeren

Om de film effectief te kunnen benutten bij een uitbraak, is het belangrijk dat een instelling daarop voorbereid is. Sleutelfiguren, zoals leden van een infectie preventie commissie, locatiemanagers, teamleiders, specialisten ouderen geneeskunde en hygiëne aandachtsfunctionarissen dienen van de film te weten en er toegang toe te hebben. Het zou mooi zijn als zij het tonen van de film standaard in hun protocollen opnemen.

Hoewel de film in eerste instantie gemaakt is voor zorgmedewerkers kunnen ook andere groepen en disciplines er baat bij hebben, zoals huishoudelijk medewerkers, vrijwilligers en de cliënten of zorgvragers. De film kan ook bruikbaar zijn voor scholingsmomenten.

Downloaden

U kunt deze film gratis downloaden, kopiëren en verspreiden. Het is niet toegestaan om deze film te gebruiken voor commerciële doeleinden en (delen van) de film te bewerken of aan te passen.

www.ggd.rotterdam.nl/filmnorovirus

Dear friends and colleagues,

On  behalf of the Executive committee of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC) I would like to announce the launch of the official APSIC web site.

The web address is:  http://apsic.info

On the web page you will find the following information:

·         APSIC background

·         How to become a of APSIC

·         APSIC Rules

·         APSIC Congress meetings

·         Opportunities to collaborate with APSIC on research projects

·         APSIC Executive committee members and their profiles

·         Calender of events

·         APSIC research projects – a call for infection control teams and healthcare facilities interested in participating in the latest APSIC research study

·         Members only page -  where members can receive access to full text articles from the Australian Infection Control Journal called “Healthcare Infection”

·         Guidelines – coming soon

·         Useful links

·         Contact us link.

We hope you find the web page useful and look forward to hearing from you in relation to the multi-country APSIC Research Project that we are planning for the Asia Pacific region. Details at: http://apsic.info/research.php

 Please feel free to circulate the above information to your infection control network of friends and colleagues. 

Regards 

Glenys 

Glenys Harrington

Secretary General

Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC)

Sinds 18 juli 2011 is de richtlijn ‘Blaasinstillatie’ beschikbaar op Oncoline.

Om het gebruik van de  richtlijn in de praktijk te bevorderen  is het van belang dat de gebruikers op de hoogte zijn van de inhoud van de richtlijn. Daarom de vraag aan uw organisatie/vereniging uw leden op de hoogte te stellen van de richtlijn ‘blaasinstillatie’.  Onderstaand een tekst, welke u bijvoorbeeld kunt gebruiken voor plaatsing op uw website of voor verzending naar uw leden.

Richtlijn ‘blaasinstillatie’

Jaarlijks wordt bij circa 5.500 mensen de diagnose blaascarcinoom gesteld. De ‘intravesicale toediening van mitomycine of BCG en begeleiding van de patiënten’ (kortweg blaasinstillatie of blaasspoeling) neemt een belangrijke plaats in bij de behandeling. De richtlijn beschrijft de voorschriften en werkwijze inzake de duur van de instillaties, de houding van de patiënt, hygiëne en veilig werken met gevaarlijke stoffen. De richtlijn is ontwikkeld door het Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland (IKNL) , beroepsverenigingen Verpleegkundigen & Verzorgenden Nederland Urologie en Oncologie (V&VN) en de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Urologie (NVU).

Doel
Het doel is de uitvoering van blaasinstillaties (of blaasspoelingen) te uniformeren en verbeteren. Ter ondersteuning voor de hulpverlener ontwikkelt het IKNL een samenvattingskaart met aanbevelingen en checklists uit de richtlijn. De samenvattingskaart is binnenkort te downloaden van Oncoline en op te vragen bij ondergetekenden.

www.Oncoline.nl

De richtlijn kan worden gedownload als PDF op ebooks, smartphones en tablets. Op Oncoline kan in de richtlijn gezocht worden, literatuur is aanklikbaar en verwijst direct naar de samenvatting op Pubmed. Klik hier om naar de richtlijn op Oncoline te gaan, of maak gebruik van de friendly URL: www.oncoline.nl/blaasinstillatie . Richtlijnen kunnen wijzigen, om u op de hoogte te houden heeft Oncoline een mailservice. U kunt uw naam en e-mail adres opgeven om aan te geven dat u op de hoogte gehouden wilt worden  van nieuwe versies van de richtlijnen waarin u geïnteresseerd bent (abonneren).

Vragen?

Heeft u vragen over deze richtlijn of over dit bericht, neem dan contact op met ondergetekende. Indien u vragen heeft over richtlijnontwikkeling door de IKNL neemt u dan contact op met de afdeling richtlijnen van het IKNL (030 233 80 60).

De ziekenhuisbacterie bestaat niet’
Het ene na het andere ziekenhuis wordt geconfronteerd met uitbraken van ‘enge’ bacteriën. Ze trekken zich
vrijwel niets meer van antibiotica aan en de artsen staan machteloos.
Hoe kan dat toch. En, belangrijker, wat doe je er aan. Twee deskundigen laten hun licht op de zaak schijnen.
Ze komen gezamenlijk tot een verbazingwekkend eenvoudig aanvalsplan: handen wassen en betere
opleiding van artsen en verplegend personeel. Lees meer

mei 2011

I am contacting you about the IMPLEMENT European study (www.eu-implement.info) that I am currently involved in. We have launched a survey on practices and barriers related to the prevention and control of healthcare associated bloodstream infections through an online questionnaire. This is aimed at infection control practitioners, clinical microbiologists and other professionals directly involved in infection prevention and control activities in European hospitals. The results from this survey should not only provide new information but more excitingly, by correlation with MRSA bacteraemia statistics from EARSS and now EARS-Net, it could possibly identify practices that are making a difference in low prevalence institutions.
 
The survey should only take about 20 minutes to complete. All data will be kept confidential and the hospital name is not even being requested. It can be completed online at:
 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/implement-english

 
Translated versions are also available in the following languages:
 
French:             http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/implement-french
 
Spanish:           http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/implement-spanish
 
German:            http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/implement-german
 
The preliminary results of the survey will be discussed at the 11th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC2011) to be held in Venice, Italy between the 12 and 15 October 2011. In order to facilitate participation in this discussion, reduced conference registration fees will apply to all questionnaire respondents. In addition, the following grants are available:
 
·         One full bursary consisting of free registration as well as 4 nights accommodation on B&B basis plus up to €400 travelling expenses;
·         Two awards of free conference registration plus accommodation;
·         Five free conference registrations.
 
These will be chosen by lot from amongst respondents who have fully completed the questionnaire and have provided their contact details.
 
We are trying to get as wide a European coverage as possible. Therefore I would like to ask if it is possible for you to disseminate this email to colleagues and contacts in the EARS-Net network, possibly with a personal endorsement and encouragement for them to complete it?
 
A flyer on the survey, in each of the four languages, can be downloaded as follows:
 
English:            http://www.theific.org/pdf_files/implement/ImplementEnglish.pdf
 
French:             http://www.theific.org/pdf_files/implement/ImplementFrench.pdf 
 
Spanish:           http://www.theific.org/pdf_files/implement/ImplementSpanish.pdf
 
German:            http://www.theific.org/pdf_files/implement/ImplementGerman.pdf
 
Please feel free to contact me if you need further information on the survey.
 
 
Best regards & hope all is well.
 
 
Michael
 
DR. MICHAEL A. BORG
Infection Control Department
Mater Dei Hospital
Msida MSD2090
MALTA
Tel: (+356) 2545 4528
Fax: (+356) 2545 7474

5 May 2011 is approaching.
Please find appended an article that summarizes A Call for Action for this important Day.
Please make sure that you as well as all healthcare settings around your participate in a universal action to improve patient safety and save lives.

Thanks for your efforts and commitment.

With best wishes

Professor Didier Pittet
Infection Control Program and WHO collaborating Center on Patient Safety
University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine
External Lead, Clean Care is Safer Care, WHO Patient Safety,
Geneva, Switzerland

Via deze weg wil ik jullie vragen om aandacht te schenken aan het volgende: op 9 juni a.s. hoop ik samen met 7 andere collega's van ons ziekenhuis 6 keer de Alpe d'Huez te gaan beklimmen per fiets. Wij doen dit, omdat we ontzettend gemotiveerd zijn om te vechten tegen kanker en de gevolgen daarvan.
Persoonlijk ben ik enorm gemotiveerd, vanwege het verlies van mijn broer Kees die het helaas niet heeft gered en ik fiets voor mijn nichtje Jozefien van 14 die getroffen is door botkanker. En natuurlijk voor al die andere mensen die onze hulp goed kunnen gebruiken.

Ik hoop van harte dat je via mij (zie onderstaande link) dit mooie doel wilt sponsoren. Mocht je nog vrienden, kennissen of bedrijven kennen, die ons ook een hart onder riem willen steken; we houden ons van harte aanbevolen. Ik zou zeggen: zegt het voort!

Alvast hartelijk dank voor je interesse en steun.
Jan Willem Schep, adviseur infectiepreventie
ziekenhuis Gelderse Vallei
Bekijk deze interessante link:http://tyurl.org/PWn06H

Willen diegenen die zich aangemeld hadden voor het symposium Infectiepreventie 2011 dat afgelopen februari had moeten plaatsvinden en problemen ondervinden met het terugontvangen van het inschrijfgeld svp contact opnemen met m.vandermaat@mmc.nl zodat gekeken kan worden om gezamenlijk hierin op te trekken.

In this edition:

• Heading towards 5 May 2011 - Where do YOU stand on hand hygiene?
• WHO resources available
• World Health Day 2011: antimicrobial resistance

Heading towards 5 May 2011 - Where do YOU stand on hand hygiene?

WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework

Tracking your progress, planning your actions and aiming for hand hygiene
improvement and sustainability are the goals for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2011.  Use the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework and other hand hygiene

tools to help you do this. http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/en/index.html

Le Modèle pour l’auto-évaluation de la promotion et des pratiques d'hygiène des mains est maintenant disponible en français!

http://www.who.int/gpsc/country_work/hhsa_framework/fr/index.html

 WHO will conduct a survey through the use of the Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework to get a global picture of progress regarding hand hygiene compliance and to estimate how much the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign promotes actions taken by health-care facilities.

Some randomly selected facilities registered for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands will receive an email inviting them to submit their data to WHO through an online data submission form. Data submission will be possible from 1 April to 15 June 2011.  By submitting data to WHO, facilities will be able to automatically calculate their score and will contribute to the global survey. Facilities' data will obviously be kept strictly confidential by WHO. We hope to achieve high participation in this survey!

You can also help demonstrate your commitment to action by just giving us your information to tell us that you are using or are going to use the Self-Assessment Framework when you download it from http://www.who.int/gpsc/country_work/contact_details/en/index.html

Registering commitment for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

If you want to improve and sustain hand hygiene and help save lives by reducing
health care-associated infection, encourage colleagues in other facilities to register their commitment with WHO now if they haven’t already done so. http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html

Take advantage of the MS Excel spreadsheet that is also available on this web page to capture a number of health-care facility registrations at one time, for example if you are a lead who organises events.

The goal of reaching 15 000 registrations is within our grasp! With only 2 600 registrations to go, we can surely reach 15 000 registrations by 5 May 2011!

How many more registrations can your country contribute to reach this number? If eight countries commit 325 new health-care facility registrations, we would be able to demonstrate to the world that hand hygiene is a global priority towards achieving patient safety.

WHO resources available

• Use the 5 May 2011 flyer at your events, found on the web pages featuring our SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands advocacy tools
• You can request WHO postcard flyers on 'Every 5 May' from savelives@who.int
• In countries where internet access is poorer and downloading tools is difficult, you can request a CD of all the WHO hand hygiene tools and a DVD of the WHO hand hygiene 5 Moments training film from savelives@who.int

Please aim to feature your local, country or regional plans in support of SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2011 on your web pages, in newsletters and in other information products. You can also cascade this newsletter/information to at least five other health-care professionals you meet in the next month to support the change that you want to see in health-care facilities around the world!

World Health Day (WHD) - Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow

With other infection prevention and control measures, ensuring high standards of hand hygiene is critical to patient safety. As many of you know, the health topic of World Health Day 2011 is antimicrobial resistance. You can read all about it at: http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2011/en/index.html

Thank you for your ongoing commitment.

Claire Kilpatrick
Programme Manager
WHO Patient Safety: Clean Care is Safer Care

Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action

Launch of Global Patient Safety Alerts

WHO Patient Safety is proud to be a special partner of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute in the development and the launch of Global Patient Safety Alerts, a publicly available web-based platform that gives frontline health-care providers and organizations around the world access to information on patient safety incidents, from causes to recommendations and solutions.

Sir Liam Donaldson, Chair of WHO Patient Safety, will give an address during the launch scheduled for 15 February 2011.

The media launch will be at 8:00 AM MST, UTC/GMT -7 hours. For remote media access to the launch

The public launch will be at 8:30 AM MST, UTC/GMT -7 hours. For public access, please visit http://www.gowebcasting.com/2190

The audio file of the launch will be available on the WHO Patient Safety website in a few days time.

WHO Patient Safety looks forward to continuing to contribute to the Portal and to use its capabilities to advance the goals of its Reporting and Learning Systems and its International Reporting and Learning Community of Practice. For more information, please visit http://www.who.int/patientsafety/implementation/reporting_and_learning/en/index.html

The WHO Patient Safety Team

In this edition:

• Heading towards 5 May 2011 - Where do YOU stand on hand hygiene?
• WHO free infection control teleclasses - February 2011
• WHO available resources

Heading towards 5 May 2011

Where do YOU stand on hand hygiene?
It's time to move from commitment to action on hand hygiene improvement! The key action for 5 May this year is to have all registered health-care facilities use the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework.

Tell us that you are using or are going to use the Self-Assessment Framework: when you download the Framework, give us your information so we can see how many of the registered health-care facilities are moving beyond commitment and actively sustaining hand hygiene improvements.

Between April and June a sample of registered facilities will be invited by WHO to submit information based on the Framework completion; WHO will make contact those identified.

Registering commitment for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
Our other goal is to continue to increase registrations in those health-care facilities who have not already committed their support for this global annual campaign. You are already an advocate for hand hygiene and SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands; so take the opportunity to promote key messages and watch how your efforts might increase the registration numbers for 2011. Here is a simple message you can use to encourage others to register; think about using it in your email sign off:

To improve and sustain hand hygiene and help save lives by reducing health care-associated infection in your health-care facility, register with WHO's annual campaign SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands and be part of this exciting global movement. http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html

With Professor Didier Pittet visiting Japan shortly to highlight this important message, we hope to see an increase in registrations in Japan; see if you can be as good an advocate in your country and your facility!

WHO free infection control teleclasses - February 2011

• The first class of 2011 held on 1 February and presented by Dr Don Goldmann can still be accessed and heard at http://webbertraining.com/recordingslibraryc4.php

WHO available resources

• Use the 5 May 2011 flier at your events, found on the web pages featuring our SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands advocacy tools.

It is exciting to hear about activities for 5 May already being planned all around the world; we look forward to seeing your plans on your local, country or regional web pages.

Please cascade this newsletter/information to at least 5 other health-care professionals you meet in the next month to support the change that you want to see in health-care facilities around the world!

Thank you for your ongoing commitment.
Claire Kilpatrick
Programme Manager
WHO Patient Safety: Clean Care is Safer Care

Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action

WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

SL: CYH Newsletter
12 January 2011

Dear Colleagues, Happy New Year

In this edition:

• Heading towards 5 May 2011
• Free WHO infection control teleclasses - 2011
• WHO available resources

Heading towards 5 May 2011

Your day:

Which 'days' will you choose to honor to this year? On 5 May many events are celebrated around the globe: some European colleagues celebrate liberation day; Mexico and the United States remember the halting of an invasion of Mexico in 1862; International midwives day is also celebrated. There are many 'days' now but as dedicated health-care professionals, lets make taking action to promote and ensure patient safety our 'day' for 2011; 5 May 2011 - a day which focuses on action that can save patient lives in all care settings.

Your action for sustained hand hygiene to save lives:

1. 'Commit' = register for WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, 5 May global annual campaign - be part of an exciting global movement;

2. 'Track your progress' = download and start using the WHO Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework; remember that its use is the action for 5 May this year!

3. 'Plan your actions' = address deficiencies and plan for repeated use of the Self Assessment Framework and other hand hygiene improvement tools.

Encourage your colleagues in other health-care settings to take these steps. Registration for those who have not already done so is simple.

Until 5 May 2011, consider taking a new simple weekly action: every step could ensure enhanced patient safety. For example, remember that not everyone knows as much about hand hygiene as you; give colleagues simple reminders and facts about when it is important, that it doesn’t need take long and how glove use and hand hygiene work together safely.

Users of the WHO Hand Hygiene Assessment Framework:

So far, only 56 contacts have let us know that they are using or are going to use the WHO Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework. Download and use the Framework, and give us your information.

Free WHO infection control teleclasses - 2011

• Full information is available. The first class in on 1 February 2011.

WHO available resources

• Videos are available to promote hand hygiene, including from Professor Didier Pittet
• WHO hand hygiene tools to support a multimodal improvement strategy
• SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands advocacy tools

Approximately 120 days remain until 5 May 2011; let’s celebrate 5 May together, ensuring a global profile for this important day of action. But let’s not forget the importance of hand hygiene every day of every year.

Please cascade this newsletter/information to at least 5 other health-care professionals you meet in the next month to support the change that you want to see in health-care facilities around the world!

Thank you for your ongoing commitment.

Claire Kilpatrick

Programme Manager

WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care

De afdeling Ziekenhuishygiëne en Infectiepreventie van het UMC Utrecht heeft samen met professionals van de OK een instructiefilm gemaakt met als titel: “Infectiepreventie in het operatiekamercomplex”.

Doel van de film is het vergroten van de kennis over het ontstaan van postoperatieve wondinfecties en de maatregelen die bijdragen aan het voorkomen van deze infecties.

Wij denken dat deze film een belangrijk instrument kan zijn voor bewustwording rond gedrag en hygiëne in de operatiekamer en van dienst kan zijn als ondersteuning van het onderwijs aan diverse beroepsgroepen die betrokken zijn bij het perioperatieve proces.

Op 13 januari 2011 vindt in het UMC Utrecht de première van de film plaats, waarna deze aan alle afdelingen infectiepreventie en alle hoofden OK van de Nederlandse ziekenhuizen zal worden gestuurd.

Contactpersoon:
Ada C.M. Gigengack - Baars,  Unithoofd Afdeling Ziekenhuishygiëne en Infectiepreventie | Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht | Huispost: Q05.2.314 |Postbus 85500 | 3508 GA | Utrecht | Kamer: Q05.2.312 | Telefoon: 088 - 7555555 zoemer 3661 | E-mail: Agigenga@umcutrecht.nl |

In this edition:

• Heading towards 5 May 2011….
• Registering for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
• Available resources to support your SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2011 efforts
• WHO Infection Control webinar series - next session
• Announcing the WHO teleclass series for 2011
• An end of year and New Year message

Heading towards 5 May 2011….

The focus for 5 May 2011 has been highlighted as 'tracking your progress, planning your actions and aiming for hand hygiene sustainability'; using the WHO | Introducing the Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Tool  can help you do this and has many benefits.

Le Cadre d’Auto-évaluation de l’Hygiène des Mains de l’OMS sera bientôt disponible en français également.

WHO led coordinated activities, including those evaluating the use of the WHO Framework will be announced in the new year, in conjunction with the WHO Collaborating Centre at the University Hospitals Geneva under the leadership of Professor Didier Pittet.

Registering for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

If you have already registered for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands there is no need to register again each year.

We count on you to keep the momentum of this annual global campaign going by encouraging others to register.

Sign up now to SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

Information on up-to-date registration numbers is available here. WHO has highlighted some areas where we hope registrations numbers will be increased in 2011:

• African nations, including in north Africa
• Central America and the Carribean
• Parts of Europe, including in Greece where excitingly the Ministry of Health pledge to address health care-associated infection was just signed in 2010, and the Netherlands
• The WHO Western Pacific Region, who achieved a lot of success in 2010 however could progress in a number of countries such as Japan.

Available resources to support your SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2011 efforts

Postcard fliers that can be used at your events can be requested by emailing savelives@who.int

This postcard can also be downloaded.

Specific 5 May 2011 downloadable A4 fliers and being prepared and will be available soon in English, French and Spanish on our advocacy tools pages.

WHO Infection Control webinar series - next session

14 December 2010, 3 pm (CET*)
Infection control in developing countries, N. Damani, Ireland
Reserve your webinar seat

Announcing the WHO teleclass series on infection control for 2011

WHO are pleased to announce eight teleclasses for 2011 (Schedule) including special presentations on and around 5 May 2011. Next year these excellent and free education sessions will look in depth at some more specific hot infection control topics and will be supported by Webber Training.

An end of year and New Year message

As we go into our 3^rd year of SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaigning WHO can't thank you enough for all your dedication and enthusiasm. We are excited about another 5 May and hope you are too. It is critical to keep the momentum going both at global and local level; a lot has been achieved yet a lot more can be done to ensure good hand hygiene practices are sustained at the point of patient care.

What else can you do? Think about having a web page dedicated to featuring local 5 May 2011 activities from your area. In 2011, WHO will not be featuring information on local activities but will be able to provide links to other sites that do.

Happy holiday season to those of you who will be celebrating.

Please cascade the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter to at least 5 other health-care professionals in the next month to support the change that you want to see in health-care facilities around the world.

Claire Kilpatrick
Programme Manager
WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care
Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be found at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/news/en/index.html and can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action. Send any enquiries to savelives@who.int and visit Clean Care is Safer Care for more information.

In this edition:

• Heading towards 5 May 2011….
• Summary of information on SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands registrations per WHO Region, 2009-2010
• WHO Infection Control webinar series - next session

Heading towards 5 May 2011….

In last month's newsletter we highlighted the importance of 'checking your status'. Knowing where your health-care facility stands on hand hygiene improvement and sustainability is an essential part of a successful programme or campaign and this will be a main focus for 5 May 2011.

Benefits of undertaking a 'self-assessment':

1. Systematically assesses the level of progress within a health-care facility with regards to infrastructures, resources, commitment and achievements, with the aim of ensuring optimal hand hygiene practices;
2. Identifies issues requiring particular attention and improvement;
3. Facilitates development of an action plan for facilities’ hand hygiene improvement programmes;
4. Allows for structured discussions on results and for documentation of progress over time;
5. Supports clear reporting of results, against an action plan, to the directorate of a health-care facility - allowing for ongoing high-level progress reviews.

Remember, the WHO Hand Hygiene Improvement Toolkit supports action to improve hand hygiene and a template action plan is also available http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/en/index.html

Your role for 5 May 2011:

• Prepare to act on forthcoming WHO messages related to action on or around 5 May 2011 as well as planning your own activities - more details on undertaking 'self-assessments' will be promoted in the months ahead
• Construct ways to share 5 May activities and actions, e.g. create dedicated web pages to feature stories and pictures in your area, country, region.

Remember, you are responsible for the change in hand hygiene practices at the point of patient care in your area and the activities that lead to this.

WHO is here to offer tools and messages to support you and to highlight the importance of this global movement and the action required to sustain it.

Registrations for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - we count on you to encourage others to sign up at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html 

Summary of information on registrations per WHO Region

Number of facilities by WHO region, May 2009 & May 2010:

WHO region              N. facilities May 2009  N. facilities May 2010  Total  
AMRO                            1548                            1287                    2835
EURO                            2159                            2218                    4377
EMRO                      194                             233                     427  
WPRO                      340                           2216                    2556   
SEARO                     196                             770                     966
AFRO                              324                               58                    382  

Read more on registration numbers by country at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/registration_update/en/index.html

WHO Infection Control webinar series - next session
16 November 2010, 3 pm (CET*)
Epidemiology and prevention of surgical site infection
A. Widmer, Basel, Switzerland
Surgical site infections (SSI) are known to be one of the most common complications of surgical procedures and contribute significantly to the global burden of health care-associated infection, including in developing countries. Evidence based measures have been identified as effective in preventing these infections.

Reserve your webinar seat at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/news/webinars/en/index.html
                                                                         
Thank you for your ongoing commitment.
Please cascade the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter to at least 5 other health-care professionals in the next month to support the change that you want to see in health-care facilities around the world.

Claire Kilpatrick
Programme Manager
WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care
Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be found at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/news/en/index.html and can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action. Send any enquiries to savelives@who.int and visit Clean Care is Safer Care for more information.

In the recent edition of the WHO Patient Safety newsletter, we talked about checklists as quality and safety tools and gave you an update on the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. New evidence published this week in the NEJM and results from a study in the US support earlier WHO findings that a surgical safety checklist could prevent at least half a million deaths per year.

Dr Atul Gawande, External Lead of the Second Global Patient Safety Challenge on Safe Surgery in the WHO Patient Safety Programme, called the results of the new studies “remarkable validation. It is clear that the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist has already saved many thousands of lives since its introduction. We need to keep the pressure on health care facilities around the world to ensure adoption of the checklist so that hundreds of thousands more lives can be saved.”

To view the WHO Patient Safety statement on this, please visit our website at

http://www.who.int/patientsafety/en/

The WHO Patient Safety Team

Heading towards 5 May 2011….

Dear Colleagues,

Hand hygiene during health care is everyone's concern and everyone has a responsibility to take action. The global annual campaign SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands aims to galvanise hand hygiene action at the point of patient care.

For two years now, as part of this global annual campaign, the world has demonstrated its commitment by signing up to the global movement and undertaking and sharing locally driven activities on hand hygiene improvements at the point of care.

The focus for 2011 is to 'check your status'. Do you know where your facility stands on hand hygiene improvement and sustainability? If not, how will you know what to improve to make patients safer and reduce health care-associated infections? Assessment is key to deciding what next steps to take.

More details on undertaking assessments on or around 5 May 2011 will be promoted in the months ahead.

Registrations for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands are still welcome - we count on you to encourage other health-care facilities to sign up at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html

Also this month:
- Les outils et ressources pour contribuer à l'amélioration de l'hygiène des mains sont finalement disponibles en français:

http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/fr/index.html

- Coming soon to the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands web pages:

• WHO postcards and posters - to download, print and use for your events http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/resources/en/index.html
• Pronto disponibles en la Web, los pósters: " ¿Cómo desinfectarse las manos?"," ¿Cómo lavarse las manos?" y "Sus 5 Momentos para la Higiene de las Manos" http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/es/index.html
• Hand Hygiene Moment 1 - Global Observation Survey Summary Report results - All health-care facilities registered for the WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands annual campaign were invited to participate in a global survey on or around 5 May 2010 by observing hand hygiene compliance with Moment 1 (before touching a patient). Following collation and analysis of submitted data, results can now be viewed www.who.int/gpsc

        Any enquiries on the Moment 1 data or results should be sent to handhygieneobs@who.int

- WHO Infection Control webinar series
19 October 2010, 3 pm (CET)
Title: Epidemiology and prevention of urinary tract infection
Speaker: A. Voss, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Reserve your webinar seat at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/news/webinars/en/index.html

- Forthcoming conference - The First International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 29^th June - 2^nd July 2011. Find more details at www.icpic.eu

Please cascade this newsletter/information to at least 5 other health-care professionals you meet in the next month to support the change that you want to see in health-care facilities around the world!

Thank you for your ongoing commitment.

Claire Kilpatrick
Programme Manager
WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care

WHO Patient Safety - Is your health-care facility registered for  SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands? If not, sign up now and encourage other health-care facilities to do the same.

Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be found at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/news/en/index.html and can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action. Please cascade this and other SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands messages to as many as you can to help this global movement, the time is now more critical than ever. 

Omdat ZIP Talks interessant kan zijn voor de bezoekers van uw website en/of voor de medewerkers van uw organisatie, stellen wij het op prijs wanneer u hier aandacht aan wilt besteden. Bijvoorbeeld door onderstaand nieuwsbericht te plaatsen op uw website, intranet of in uw personeelsblad of nieuwsbrief.
Als u onderstaand bericht plaatst, wilt u mij daar dan per mail over informeren? Onder aan het bericht vindt u een embedded code en logo’s die u kunt gebruiken ter ondersteuning van het nieuwsbericht.

Voor vragen ben ik bereikbaar op 06-12754191 of otto@politiekonline.nl. Alvast hartelijk dank voor uw medewerking!

Met vriendelijke groet,
Namens het Zorginnovatieplatform,

Leonie Otto
Politiek Online

Thank you for your interest,
The Safe Surgery Saves Lives Team
WHO Patient Safety Programme
Harvard School of Public Health

WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
SL: CYH Newsletter
6 July 2010  

'Be the change that you want to see in the world' (Ghandi)

The WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge, including SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, isn’t just about demonstrating global commitment to hand hygiene and reduction of health care-associated infection; it's truly about everyone being committed to taking action at the point of care to improve patient safety and to facilitate a necessary social movement.

WHO is supporting efforts, not just by coordinating the global annual SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign for the last two years, which has acted as a catalyst for action, but by providing the evidence, tools and communications that allow this to happen. Your role however is vital, both as an advocate and change agent.

The opportunity to adapt and adopt WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge tools exists now; making it easier for all countries and settings to take action today and every day.

In this month's newsletter:
- Latest update on WHO tools available on the web pages
- Current registration numbers for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
- SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands forward strategy
- WHO Infection Control webinar series update
- Forthcoming infection control conference
- How to find out more about WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge work and available materials.

Dear Colleagues,

Latest update on WHO tools available on the web pages

• De nouveaux outils ont récemment été rajoutés aux pages francophones de notre site, dans l'espoir que cela encouragera de plus en plus d'établissements de santé à rejoindre le mouvement
• Current English tools can be found at here. Recently a WHO 'My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene' poster of a patient sitting in a chair has also been added
• Locally adapted examples of tools are also available here
• It is important to note the copyright/translations permissions process for tools
• Translation of tools into other official WHO languages continues.

Current registration numbers

The current number of registered health-care facilities stands at 11,967 from 143 countries, representing over 6.5 million staff and almost 3 million patient beds.

Find out more about the location of registered facilities

SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands forward strategy

Forward planning for the global annual campaign on 5 May each year is currently being considered. It is important that the progress made in the first two years is taken forward by the right people in the right places with WHO's support; your actions will be crucial in sustaining the aims of this global initiative! More information will be forthcoming in this newsletter and on the web pages.

WHO Infection Control Webinar Series update

13 July 2010, 3 pm (CET)
Epidemiology and prevention of hospital-acquired/ventilator-associated pneumonia
P. Eggimann, Lausanne, Switzerland
Reserve your webinar seat now 

Forthcoming infection control conference

The International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC) in collaboration with Infection Prevention and Control Africa Network (IPCAN) host their conference in South Africa on 28-31 August 2010. At this event, among other excellent presentations, there will be several opportunities to hear updates from the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge, including a keynote lecture from Professor Pittet, and two workshops; on infection control in developing countries and the implementation of the WHO 'My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene' http://www.theific.org/ipcan2010.asp

Find out more and available materials

• A number of frequently asked questions and answers, as well as information on country activities, also exist to support implementation of hand hygiene campaigns http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/training_education/en/index.html http://www.who.int/gpsc/national_campaigns/en/
• You can request postcard-sized fliers focussing on the importance of hand hygiene and WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands for your events by writing to savelives@who.int
• Any other enquiries should be sent to savelives@who.int
• Previous newsletters can be found at here

Please cascade this newsletter/information to at least 5 other health-care professionals you meet in the next month to support the change that you want to see in the world!

Klik hier voor de Aanbeveling van de Raad van Europese Unie betreffende patiëntveiligheid,
met inbegrip van de preventie en bestrijding van zorginfecties (Een commissie van de Raad van Europese Unie heeft een rapport en aanbevelingen uitgebracht betreffende patiëntveiligheid, met inbegrip van de preventie en bestrijding van zorginfecties, met daarin interessante aanbevelingen en conclusies voor de doelgroep adviseurs infectiepreventie.)

Klik hier voor de KRIZ norm, versie 1, november 2008

Zomer 2009 hebben jullie de gelegenheid gekregen om naar de les te kijken en te beoordelen of deze geschikt is voor eigen gebruik. Uit de reacties blijkt dat sommige modules goed bruikbaar zijn. Voor andere modules zoals Isolatiemaatregelen is de wens geuit om aanpassingen te kunnen maken zodat de informatie aansluit bij de werkwijze in de eigen instelling.

Het heeft veel tijd gekost om de zakelijke kant te regelen. Het volgende is besloten:
• De les is voor alle ziekenhuizen beschikbaar zonder extra kosten.
• De les wordt neutraal gemaakt: gericht op “het ziekenhuis” in plaats van het LUMC.
• Door een account aan te maken op www.medischonderwijs.nl kan iedereen gratis de verschillende modules volgen zodra de neutrale versie op deze site is geplaatst.
• Instellingen die modules willen aanpassen hebben een licentie nodig van:
o MasterPro, deze is gratis
o Medischonderwijs, eenmalige kosten: € 500,- en vervolgens jaarlijks € 650, -.

Collega’s die aangegeven hebben interesse te hebben en/of op de hoogte te willen blijven van de laatste ontwikkelingen, zullen per mail informatie ontvangen.
Mocht je alsnog interesse hebben dan kun je dit kenbaar maken.

Voor vragen over techniek en licenties: p.m.bloemendaal@lumc.nl
Voor vragen over de inhoud: j.j.maarleveld@lumc.nl

Hanny Maarleveld
Adviseur infectiepreventie
LUMC 071-5263365

 
As of 28 April,  8 173 health-care facilities have registered which equates to well over 6 million health-care staff around the globe committed to improving hand hygiene at the point of care. 

If you are linked or twinned within another health-care facility in another region or country why not check if they are registered and if not encourage them to sign up at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html

 
- New on the WHO web pages 
 
A new 5 May 2010 advocacy video from Professor Didier Pittet will be available shortly to download or stream from http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/  - take the opportunity to use this to help you promote 5 May 2010 

 
Spanish versions of the Hand Hygiene Moment 1 tool and instructions are being uploaded shortly

- Instrucciones para el formulario de observación de la higiene de las manos en el Momento 1 http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/es/index.html

Health-care facilities are invited to participate in a global survey on or around 5 May 2010 by observing hand hygiene compliance with Moment 1. To find specific information on data collection and online data submission go to http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/

 
Many more local activities from around the globe are being placed on the dedicated web pages daily; these demonstrate the actions being taken worldwide to promote hand hygiene action and the reduction of health care-associated infections http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/country_events/en/index.html

 
 
- WHO plans for 5 May  
 
WHO is committed to a number of activities on this important day:
·  Issuing web based information on the burden of disease attributable to health care-associated infection, as well as a 2-year pilot study conducted in selected countries worldwide, which used the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy to address hand hygiene practice at the point of care. This will be of interest to facilities in all countries who are aiming to establish or continue with their own hand hygiene promotion programmes;

·  Launching  the new Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework tool, which aims to allow for a situational analysis of hand hygiene practices and promotion;   

·  Providing  free, live webinars - Professor Didier Pittet will present on "Improving hand hygiene worldwide" at 8am and 3pm in English and at 4.30pm in French (all times are Geneva time, which means 7am, 2pm and 3.30pm British Summer Time).  Sign up for the webinar that suits your timing best at  http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/news/webinars/en/index.html

·  Issuing up-to-date information on registration numbers and what is happening around the globe for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, and answering any enquiries you may have.

 
- Action you can take on 5 May 
 
Participate in the Hand Hygiene Moment 1 - Global Observation Survey
 
Download the new Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework tool and consider its use to assess your current situation on hand hygiene promotion and practice http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/

 
If you don't have an event planned for 5 May, do something simple to raise awareness to hand hygiene, for example send a message to all in your facility using the new information on burden of health care-associated infection and evidence for using a multimodal strategy to improve hand hygiene, or by using the advocacy tools on the web pages or SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter wording. 

 
- WHO Twitter Channel  
 
Subscribe now to receive SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands messages, go to http://twitter.com/whonews
 
Thank you for your ongoing support.
 
Claire Kilpatrick
Programme Manager, First Global Patient Safety Challenge  

 
WHO Patient Safety - Is your health-care facility registered for  SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands? If not, sign up here: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html and encourage other health-care facilities to do the same so that we can reach 10 000 by May 2010 

 
Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be found at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/news/en/index.html and can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action. Please cascade this and other SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands messages to as many as you can to help this global movement, the time is now more critical than ever. 

Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for continuing to enthusiastically support the achievement of hand hygiene improvement through the commitment of your health-care facility to celebrate WHO's global annual initiative on 5 May 2010.

The WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge team is now pleased to propose two key hand hygiene improvement activities, through the use of two new tools.

Hand Hygiene Moment 1 - Global Observation Survey
WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands invites health-care facilities to participate in a global survey on or around 5 May 2010 by observing hand hygiene compliance with Moment 1 (before touching a patient) and submitting their data to WHO.

WHY?

• To motivate health-care workers to focus on taking action to improve and sustain hand hygiene, including the important indication for hand hygiene "before touching a patient"
• To assess health-care worker compliance with Moment 1 (before touching a patient)
• For WHO, to assess global compliance with Moment 1 through secured data collection and analysis

HOW?

• Download the new Hand Hygiene Moment 1 Observation Form and the Hand Hygiene Moment 1 - Global Observation Survey Instructions at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/
• Plan the survey (observations) in your facility (facility-wide or in some specific areas/departments); assess the resources available, decide the scope, and draw up a plan
• Conduct the survey on or around 5 May 2010
• Submit the observed data to the WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands initiative through the dedicated web site supported by the WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety (University of Geneva Hospitals). Following data entry, you will easily be able to calculate and view your own results

* Important: the link to the data collection web site will be accessible at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/ from the end of April 2010. To access this resource the facility must be registered with WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands before 30 April 2010. If your facility has been already registered please do not register again.

Read more about the survey in the Hand Hygiene Moment 1 - Global Observation Survey Instructions downloadable at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/ and take the opportunity to play a crucial part in this activity along with other health-care workers at your health-care facility and around the globe.

Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework
As a core component of the 5 May global annual initiative, this year the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge team will launch a new tool: the Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework.

WHAT IS IT?
The Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework is a validated and systematic tool with which to obtain a situation analysis of hand hygiene promotion and practices within your health-care facility. The Framework is divided into five sections which reflect the five components considered key for hand hygiene improvement according to the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy. Each section includes indicators selected according to evidence and expert consensus in order to represent the key elements of each component.

WHY?

• To assess the level of progress of your health-care facility with regards to infrastructures, resources, actions, commitment and achievements, in order to ensure optimal hand hygiene practices
• To facilitate development of an action plan for the facility’s hand hygiene improvement programme
• To identify key issues requiring attention and improvement and to document progress over time through the repeated use of the Framework

HOW?

• From 5 May 2010 onwards, download the Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/
• Complete the Framework and calculate the score to identify the assigned level of hand hygiene promotion and practice in your health-care facility*
• Discuss the results and identify issues requiring attention and improvement, for example, within the infection control committee, and make an action plan
• Report the results and the action plan to the directorate

* The most appropriate professionals to complete the Framework are those in charge of implementing a strategy to improve hand hygiene within a health-care facility. If no strategy is being implemented yet, the Framework can be completed by professionals in charge of infection control or senior managers at facility directorate level.

We encourage you to use the Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework to continuously assess your health-care facility's progress according to evidence-based standards for hand hygiene improvement. The WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge team is eager to support you in such assessments as well as in future improvements, and also to understand the level of different health-care facilities' progress.

WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands initiative has already received many communications about exciting activities planned to take place in health-care facilities on or around 5 May 2010. Include in your plans the use of these two new hand hygiene tools to catalyse evaluation and action at your facility. Do your part to demonstrate support and commitment for this growing global movement and share your plans and activities with WHO.

If you have any enquiries on the use of the survey or framework, send them to savelives@who.int

We appreciate your ongoing enthusiasm and commitment. Thank you on behalf of the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge Team.

Didier Pittet                                                   Benedetta Allegranzi
Lead                                                            Deputy Lead

WHO Patient Safety - Is your health-care facility registered for  SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands? If not, sign up here: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html and encourage other health-care facilities to do the same so that we can reach 10,000 by May 2010 

 
Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be found at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/news/en/index.html and can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action. Please cascade this and other SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands messages to as many as you can to help this global movement, the time is now more critical than ever. 

• The inaugural WHO infection control webinar & February's webinar
• Some recent questions and answers
• Helping to promote 5 May 2010
• Sharing your 5 May activities with WHO
• Fliers for events & other resources

Inaugural WHO webinar & February's Webinar -  
 
The inaugural lecture of WHO Infection Control Webinar Series took place on 19 January 2010. Hundreds of health-care professionals from around the globe tuned in to hear the lecture on 'The global burden of health care-associated infections' presented by Dr Benedetta Allegranzi, deputy lead of WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge. Many participants sent in questions, which were answered live by Dr Allegranzi at the end. The presentation slides can be found at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/news/webinars/en/index.html

 
The next free webinar will be on 16 February at 15.00hrs Central European Time (Geneva time), 14.00hrs GMT. Don't miss this opportunity to hear an excellent lecture by Professor Didier Pittet on 'The Modern Approach to Infection Control'. You can sign up free of charge by going to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/582061024 (remember if this link does not take you directly to the web page, copy the address details into the URL line of an open web page). After you have registered your details you will receive full instructions on how to join the webinar.

 
Questions and Answers -
 
Timings of webinars - We received some enquiries about the timing of the webinars in many different locations around the globe. The times we provide can easily be converted by looking up 'time zone convertor' information in books or on the internet, using the CET (Geneva) time we provide. Unfortunately we cannot provide a full list of time zones around the globe.

 
Attendance at local events planned to support 5 May 2010 - We have received many requests to attend events around the world. Unfortunately, we will not be able to attend all local or country events; and we hope that the focus will be on activities taking place at the point of patient care to improve hand hygiene and patient safety, rather than on WHO. We will do what we can to support events and activities in other ways, including sending letters from WHO, on your request, to provide personalised support. For Professor Didier Pittet's hand hygiene webinar, planned as a WHO supporting activity on 5 May, you can easily check what time it will take place in your time zone to tie this in with your event/activity. Details for registering for the webinar will be sent nearer the time.

Questions and answers on all aspects of hand hygiene, the First Global Patient Safety Challenge and SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands can be found at:-

http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/5may/Frequently_Asked_Questions.doc
http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/media/q_a/en/index.html

Adapting WHO tools  - information can be found at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/copyright/en/index.html
 
Helping to promote 5 May 2010 -
Registering for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - it couldn’t be simpler to encourage health-care facilities in your own town, country or region to register their commitment to SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands and to be part of this global movement. Just tell them to complete the form at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html. Or, if people don’t have access to the internet, you can encourage them to register by post (they can contact us for more information on this).  Remember 10,000 for 2010 

To see how the registration numbers are progressing in your country/region go to http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/registration_update/en/index.html   

Sharing your 5 May activities with WHO - 
 
We have already received some exciting information about plans for 5 May 2010 but we want to hear more. Email us at savelives@who.int and we will share this information on a dedicated website to encourage others and to celebrate all of your efforts.  Last year almost 100 people from around the globe shared their plans. We hope to see many more this year. 

To check on WHO plans, as well as other country suggestions to support 5 May 2010 go to: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/country_events/en/index.html

 
Fliers for events & other resources -   
 
Many thanks to all of your who showed a keen interest in distributing postcard sized fliers promoting SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands and WHO '5 Moments for Hand Hygiene'.

Requests for fliers, and CD Roms containing all of the tools for resource limited countries, can still be sent to savelives@who.int

Remember to check all our web based resources targeted at health-care facilities at:-
http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/resources/en/index.html
 
The SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands initiative has already helped many developed and developing countries, having enhanced and re-energised the efforts of WHO Clean Care is Safer Care programme launched in 2005, as well as many ministries of health, organisations and health-care facilities.  Do your part to demonstrate support and leadership for this growing global movement, encouraging action at the point of care to prevent health care-associated infections.  

With many thanks for your on-going commitment, support and enthusiasm.

Claire Kilpatrick
Programme Manager, First Global Patient Safety Challenge 
WHO Patient Safety - Is your health-care facility registered for  SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands? If not, sign up here: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html and encourage other health-care facilities to do the same so that we can reach 10,000 by May 2010 

 
Previous SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletters can be found at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/news/en/index.html and can be used to help you develop your own messages to encourage others to take action. Please cascade this and other SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands messages to as many as you can to help this global movement, the time is now more critical than ever. 

 
Enquiries and requests - email savelives@who.int
More information on WHO's First Global Patient Safety Challenge  http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/
Remember to use WHO's hand hygiene tools and resources to support improvement and sustainability in your area http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/en/index.html

WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands:  10,000 for 2010

Welcome to a Special Edition SL: CYH Newsletter

11 January 2010

Dear Colleagues,

First webinar lecture in WHO's infection control webinar series - Tuesday 19 January 2010, 3pm (central European time) - registration details -

Sign up free of charge to Dr Benedetta Allegranzi's lecture on the Global Burden of Health Care-Associated Infections by going to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/308214761 (remember if this link does not take you directly to the web page copy the address details into the URL line of an open web page). After you have registered your details here you will receive full instructions of how to join the webinar.

Lecture overview:

Health care-associated infections (HCAI) affect hundreds of millions of patients worldwide every year. Infections lead to more serious illness, prolong hospital stays, induce long-term disabilities, add high costs to patients and their families, contribute to a massive, additional financial burden on the health-care system and, critically, often result in tragic loss of life.

Although the risk of acquiring HCAI is universal and pervades every health-care facility and system around the world, the global burden is unknown because of the difficulty of gathering reliable diagnostic data.

This presentation will give an overview of the epidemiology and impact of HCAI in both developing and developed countries according to comprehensive systematic reviews of the literature.

Klik hier  voor meer presentaties

Desinfektionsmittel-Kommission veröffentlicht aktuelle Liste

Bonn, 13. November 2009. Zeitgleich mit ihrem 50-jährigen Jubiläum veröffentlicht die Desinfektionsmittelkommission im Verbund für Angewandte Hygiene (VAH) ihre im zweijährigen Rhythmus erscheinende Liste der zertifizierten Präparate für die prophylaktische Desinfektion. In dieser Liste sind mehr als 900 Produkte für verschiedene Anwendungsbereiche mit Informationen zur Prüfmethodik und Hinweisen für die Praxis enthalten. Die Liste ist als Druckwerk und als Online-Version erhältlich. Aufgrund des aktuellen pandemischen Auftretens verschiedener Infektionserreger ist die VAH-Liste sowohl im medizinischen als auch im nicht-medizinischen, öffentlichen Bereich noch stärker in den Fokus gerückt.

Die Prüfung und Bewertung der Verfahren zur prophylaktischen chemischen Desinfektion beruht auf einer standardisierten Prüfmethodik, die von der Desinfektionsmittel-Kommission bereits in den 50er Jahren erarbeitet und seitdem ständig den aktuellen Erfordernissen angepasst und weiterentwickelt wurde. Die Kommission ist ein wissenschaftliches Gremium, deren Mitglieder ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten auf dem Gebiet der Desinfektionsmitteltestung sind. Die Kommission war lange Jahre bei der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM) angesiedelt und ging 2003 in den neu gegründeten Verbund für Angewandte Hygiene (VAH) über.

Der Einsatz der unabhängigen Gutachterinnen und Gutachter in der Kommission ist eine wichtige Voraussetzung, um eine verlässliche Wirksamkeit der auf dem Markt angebotenen und in der Liste aufgeführten Produkte und Verfahren zu gewährleisten. Die Liste dient somit als Instrument der Qualitätssicherung sowie als Orientierungshilfe für die Auswahl wirksamer Produkte der prophylaktischen Desinfektion im medizinischen, aber auch im nicht-medizinischen Bereich.

In den Grußworten zum 50jährigen Bestehen der Desinfektionsmittel-Liste weist die Kommission auf ihre Ziele und Forschungsvorhaben für die Zukunft hin. Ein vordringliches Anliegen wird es sein, die VAH-Liste um viruzide Mittel zu ergänzen. Die Überprüfung der Testergebnisse durch unabhängige Gutachterinnen und Gutachter ist auch hier wieder Voraussetzung für die Sicherheit der angewendeten Verfahren. Darüber hinaus muss die Entwicklung eines praxisnahen Tests zur Bewertung der viruziden Wirksamkeit vorangetrieben werden. Die Kommission setzt bei diesen Vorhaben auf die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Robert Koch-Institut, der Deutschen Vereinigung zur Bekämpfung von Viruskrankheiten und dem Industrieverband Hygiene und Oberflächenschutz.

Die prophylaktische Desinfektion innerhalb eines ganzheitlich angelegten Konzepts zur Infektionsprävention ist nicht nur für das Zeitfenster des pandemischen Auftretens einzelner Infektionserreger von hoher Relevanz. Die epidemiologische Situation verändert sich ständig, und somit ist die Bewertung wirksamer Desinfektionsverfahren eine kontinuierliche Aufgabe, die von allen Beteiligten Beharrlichkeit, ständige Anpassungsfähigkeit und eine hohe Integrations- und Kompromissbereitschaft erfordert. Das ehrenamtliche Engagement der Mitglieder der Kommission wird auch in Zukunft die Grundlage dafür sein, dass in Deutschland – und über Deutschland hinaus – nur geprüfte und für wirksam befundene Verfahren zur Anwendung kommen, die den sich weiterentwickelnden Bedürfnissen der Anwenderinnen und Anwender gerecht werden.

Weitere Informationen über den VAH – und nach Drucklegung auch die Grußworte des Vorsitzenden des VAH, des Vorsitzenden und des Geschäftsführers der Desinfektionsmittel-Kommission sowie des Robert Koch-Instituts – finden Sie unter www.vah-online.de.
C.I.

Pressekontakt:
Desinfektionsmittel-Kommission im VAH
Dr. Jürgen Gebel
Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25
53127 Bonn
E-mail: info@vah-online.de
Web: www.vah-online.de

WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

Newsletter

7 September 2009

Dear Colleagues

Last month, WHO Patient Safety hosted a two day technical meeting in Geneva for representatives from countries where hand hygiene campaigns are already operating. The newsletter this month gives you a snapshot of the meeting and some of the discussions that took place. But first, Save Lives: Clean Your Hands is gearing up to raise the registrations ahead of May 2010.

10,000 for 2010

It's our new catchcry. By 5 May this year, we had tipped the 5000 mark for hospitals and facilities worldwide to celebrate improvements in hand hygiene. By 5 May next year, we are aiming for 10,000 registrations. To do this we will need your help. Word of mouth is one of the best ways, as are contacting colleagues, talking to other health professionals and using your networks. We will swing into action with a revitalized campaign very shortly - all details and information will be available on the website.

Campaigning countries get together

In August more than 50 participants from a wide range of countries came together in Geneva for a two-day technical meeting. The majority of the attendees represented countries where hand hygiene campaigns are now operating or about to begin, and were energized by some spirited debate and discussion on the approaches different campaigns have adopted. It is very encouraging to see the extent to which hand hygiene is being used as a critical means of reducing health care-associated infection (HCAI) and is motivation for us all in continuing with our activities to improve and sustain hand hygiene in all our work places.

Professor Didier Pittet as the expert lead for the First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care stressed the ongoing importance of hand hygiene and the contribution WHO Patient Safety has made since the programme was initiated four years ago. His presentation was followed by a session on 'patient voices' which covered some of the consequences that HCAI bring to patients and their families. Another session included the results of an international survey on the current status of the various hand hygiene initiatives in different countries. A report on this work will be posted on the website shortly.

Many participants contributed to the event with oral and poster presentations prompting discussion and interaction. One of the key recommendations was that facilities should adopt a more multidisciplinary approach to hand hygiene improvement at local level, which can be highly rewarding but challenging to achieve.

One of the major items on the agenda was how to progress the concept of a network of countries where campaigns are already in place or about to begin. The capacity to share knowledge, experiences, issues and concerns is an important aspect of the network .

A full report on the Geneva meeting will be available from the website as well as ongoing information on the activities of campaigning countries.

Case studies for shared learning

A warm thank you to many of you who are sending us hand hygiene case studies reflecting the work being achieved in their local areas. As always, putting these case studies on the website poses some challenges and we are currently putting together some additional guidelines as well as information about the process here at WHO for uploading them.

Hand Hygiene Implementation Tools - as you will be aware a number of implementation tools are available at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/en/index.html At this time, some updated tools have been placed on these pages, in an attempt to make the tools as clear and user-friendly as possible. Information will be available on the changes that have been made to existing tools to make it easy for you to understand. We always encourage you to check our web pages regularly for any updates, especially to the tools that you might be using in your areas. We have also introduced a new 'opening' page to the tools, following requests to highlight some key tools in the first instance, however we should emphasise that in order to implement a successful multi-modal hand hygiene improvement strategy the full range of tools available are all important.

All information about the Challenge team and contact inquiries are available at: http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/ and http://www.who.int/gpsc/background/en/index.html And, if you have any specific enquiries, as usual send them to savelives@who.int

Thank you all for your ongoing support and enthusiasm.

Claire Kilpatrick

Programme Manager, First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care

Klik  hier voor het rapport

Werkgroep Privéklinieken

Wij willen in het najaar een landelijke bijeenkomst organiseren voor hygiënisten/adviseurs infectiepreventie die zich bezig houden met het adviseren aan particuliere klinieken.
Dit om ervaringen uit te wisselen, knelpunten te inventariseren, procedures af te stemmen, gezamenlijke formats te ontwikkelen etc.
Mogelijk kan daar een structurele bijeenkomst uit voortvloeien.

Heb je hierover vragen dan kun je bij Theo van de Hulsbeek, thvdhulsbeek@onsbrabantnet.nl of bij ondergetekende terecht.

Heb je interesse dan kun je je aanmelden via de mail bij p.das@mmc.nl

Webinar with Professor Didier Pittet

A 1hr webinar was held on the afternoon of 5 May 2009 where Professor Pittet provided an extensive update of the work done to date on the First Global Patient Safety Challenge, "Clean Care is Safer Care". In his presentation, Professor Pittet focused in particular on SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, the new extension of the Challenge bringing the theory of hand hygiene and infection control to the bedside.

Colleagues from around the world joined in this event and the audio file of the webinar will shortly be posted on this page. In the meantime you may access the presentation slides through the link below. Please note this is a very heavy file and may take some time to download.

5 May 2009 - webinar presentation by Didier Pittet [pdf 28.35Mb]

De datum voor de zesde Landelijke Hepatitisweek staat vast! Van 19 tot en met 23 januari 2010 wordt deze gehouden in Congrescentrum Regardz Eenhoorn Amersfoort.
Deze dagen zal er met name uitgebreid aandacht besteed worden aan het thema:

‘Medische en sociale gevolgen van hepatitis’

Voor de concrete invulling van de verschillende congresdagen voor de doelgroepen Eerste- en Tweedelijnszorg (dinsdag 19 januari), Arbozorg (donderdag 21 januari), Patiënten en hun omgeving (zaterdag 23 januari), vragen wij u suggesties, stellingen of subthema’s aan te dragen. Mail uw suggesties voor 15 juli naar LHW@hepatitis.nl
De door u aangeleverde ideeën worden door de Programmacommissie Landelijke Hepatitisweek 2010 als basis gebruikt voor de programmaopzet.

Open huis: E-learning infectiepreventie

Op het VHIG congres heb ik verslag gedaan van het opzetten van E-learning. De e-les met basiskennis en basisregels over infectiepreventie is bedoeld voor alle (nieuwe) medewerkers in de patiëntenzorg van het LUMC.

Ondertussen zijn een aantal ziekenhuizen geïnteresseerd in de e-les. Om collega’s de gelegenheid te geven de les te volgen en te beoordelen op geschiktheid voor de eigen instelling, wordt er “open huis” gehouden.

Hoe is dit “open huis” georganiseerd?

• Per instelling meldt één contactpersoon zich aan vóór 12 juni.
• De contactpersoon krijgt internetlinks gemaild die toegang geven tot de modules.
• In week 26 en 27 krijgen instellingen via de contactpersoon de gelegenheid een kijkje te nemen.
• Dit “open huis” geldt voor de les die aan LUMC medewerkers wordt aangeboden

Vervolgens kunnen de contactpersonen tot 17 juli namens de instelling reageren en interesse voor de les kenbaar maken

Uiteraard zullen de contactpersonen vóór het verkrijgen van de internetlinks meer informatie ontvangen over voorwaarden en gebruik.

Geïnteresseerd? Meld je aan bij Hanny Maarleveld via j.j.maarleveld@lumc.nl
Adviseur infectiepreventie, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum

IFIC-Covidien 2009

Grant Proposal Competition:

Making Safe Childbirth a Reality

In many parts of the world, very high rates of complications and infections are part of the birth process. Infection prevention is integral to solving many of the problems that are related to poor birth outcomes. Low cost, effective infection prevention interventions are necessary immediately. Although there is considerable interest in maternal-child problems, there is very little focus on the infection prevention aspects. In order to address this lacuna, IFIC is launching a Grant Proposal Competition aimed at infection control and related practitioners in developing countries. This initiative is made possible through the generous support of one of our Strategic Partners - Covidien.

This call is being coordinated by Ms. Patricia Lynch, chair of the IFIC Safe Childbirth Special Interest Group, and seeks proposals for projects to reduce neonatal infections in hospital and outpatient settings. A successful proposal will include a plan to bring infection control best practices to a low-resource setting or population using a community-hospital partnership. The grant will be awarded so that the investigators can implement their proposal and measure results.

This project must result in an English language publication or presentable abstract. Grant requests are limited to US $3000. This request for proposals is for a one-time, one-year project.

Applications should be submitted in Microsoft Word format using the document template attached. Applications submitted in other ways will not be reviewed or acknowledged. The SIG will acknowledge applications within two weeks of its submission. Candidates may be contacted to discuss the application further.

The application must include a/n:

1. Executive Summary

2. Narrative, no more than 500 words, that includes:

a. Project description

i. Brief Statement of problem and hypothesis for project

ii. Goals and objectives

iii. Target population

iv. Proposed methods

b. Plan for measuring project results

c. Biographical sketch of key project participants including publications on related subjects

3. Project Budget

It should be submitted by email to: safechildbirth@theific.org.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS is 30 JULY 2009

klik hier voor meer info

International Journal of Infection Control
Vol 5, No 1 (2009)
Table of Contents
http://www.ijic.info/issue/view/301

Editorial Commentary
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Hand hygiene promotion: 5 moments, 5 components, 5 steps, and 5 May 2009
Didier Pittet

Original Articles
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Healthcare Workers’ Compliance with Hand Hygiene After the Introduction of an Alcohol-Based Handrub
Michele Chittaro, Laura Calligaris, Federico Farneti, Alda Faruzzo, Mateo Panariti, Silvio Brusaferro

Dermal tolerance and effect on skin hydration of an improved ethanol-based hand gel
Günter Kampf, Michael Muscatiello, Dörte Segger

Infection Control at a Government Hospital in Pakistan
Shehla Baqi, Nizam N Damani, Sharaf Ali Shah, Rafiq Khanani

Education & Training of Peon on Infection Control: Experience in Peripheral Health Facilities in Nepal
Gagan Gurung

An Innovative Method for the Control of Legionella Infections in the Hospital Hot Water Systems with a Stabilized Hydrogen Peroxide-Silver
Formulation
Hillel Shuval, Rachel Yarom, Rivka Shenman

Practice Forum
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Denial, Media and Endurance in Infection Control in Kosova
Lul Raka, Gjyle Mulliqi, Isuf Dedushaj, Selvete Krasniqi, Tahire Gjergji, Avdyl Krasniqi, Drita Salihu, Gazmend Spahija

On-going surveillance and control of neonatal Staphylococcus aureus infection in the OB unit, an experience from Banso Baptist Hospital (BBH)
Surgical wound infections – a historical review
Nkwan Jacob Gobte

Letters to the Editor
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Improving childbirth outcomes: an opportunity for infection prevention
Patricia Lynch

Impact of a Continuous Quality Improvement Program on Infection Control of Endoscopes
Ahmed SEH Gado, Basel A Ebeid

Microbial contamination in dental unit water lines (DUWL) in private dental clinics of Udaipur City, India
Santhosh Kumar, Arjun Singh Choudhary, Disha Gupta, Balasubramanyam Goutham, Prabu Duraiswamy, Suhas Kulkarni

Ziekenhuizen en alle andere zorginstellingen in de hele wereld worden uitgenodigd om deel te nemen om handhygiëne te promoten and zorginfecties te verminderen. Momenteel hebben 930 ziekenhuizen uit 70 landen hiervoor ingetekend. Helaas nog niemand uit Nederland. Het zou toch prachtig zijn om ook uit Nederland deelnemers te verwelkomen, en patiëntenveiligheid en de handhygiëne compliance.

Inschrijven is gratis en u kunt zich aanmelden op de website.

http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/index.html

Laat deze kans u niet ontglippen!

Gertie van Knippenberg-Gordebeke

Co-chair IFIC Special Interest Group Hand hygiene

De Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg (IGZ) reikt in 2009 voor het eerst de IGZ ZorgVeiligPrijs uit. De prijs gaat naar het beste initiatief in 2008 op het gebied van patiënt- of cliëntveiligheid in de zorg.

De inspectie vindt dat positieve prestaties in de gezondheidszorg ook wel eens beloond mogen worden. De zorg kan veiliger worden als goede initiatieven navolging vinden bij andere aanbieders van zorg, preventie of medische producten. Dit wil de inspectie graag stimuleren.

De inspectie nodigt instellingen, organisaties, bedrijven en personen die zich bezig houden met zorg, preventie of medische producten uit om mee te dingen naar de IGZ ZorgVeiligPrijs. Het winnende initiatief moet in 2008 een uitstekende prestatie met aantoonbare resultaten op het gebied van patiënt- of cliëntveiligheid hebben neergezet. De winnaar wordt bekend gemaakt op het jaarlijkse IGZ congres over Patiëntveiligheid op 11 juni 2009 in De Doelen te Rotterdam.

Een selectiecommissie selecteert uit alle inzendingen maximaal tien kandidaten en maakt deze longlist in april openbaar. Een externe jury, onder voorzitterschap van de Inspecteur-generaal voor de Gezondheidszorg Gerrit van der Wal, nomineert vervolgens drie kandidaten. Van deze genomineerde projecten wordt een film gemaakt. Deze is te zien op het IGZ patiëntveiligheidscongres op 11 juni, gevolgd door de uitreiking van de IGZ ZorgVeiligPrijs aan de uiteindelijke winnaar.

De jury bestaat uit:
- Gerrit van der Wal, Inspecteur-generaal voor de Gezondheidszorg (voorzitter)
- Wim Deetman, lid Raad van State
- Lidy Hartemink, directeur Zorg Univé Zorgverzekeringen
- Harry Molendijk, medisch manager centrum patiëntveiligheid Isala Klinieken
- Peter Holland, oud-voorzitter KNMG
- Rein Willems, lid CDA-fractie Eerste Kamer. Als president-directeur van Shell Nederland onderzocht Willems de patiëntveiligheid in Nederlandse ziekenhuizen.

Aanmelden voor de IGZ ZorgVeiligPrijs kan via het aanmeldingsformulier op de website van de Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg: www.igz.nl. De sluitingsdatum voor het aanmelden is 15 maart 2009.

http://www.igz.nl

Informatiemateriaal
Het RIVM heeft een praktische handleiding (vademecum) gemaakt om artsen
en hoofden van laboratoria te ondersteunen bij de toepassing van de
gewijzigde meldingsplicht. Het vademecum bevat een overzicht van de
meldingsplichtige infectieziekten, achtergrondinformatie over de reden
van de meldingsplicht en praktische informatie de wijze van melden.
Tevens is een historisch overzicht van gemelde infectieziekten
opgenomen, een leeswijzer voor relevante wetteksten en telefoonnummers
van GGD’en binnen en buiten kantoortijden.
In de bijgesloten pdf is een schematisch overzicht van de meldingsplicht
weergegeven.

Meldingen
Artsen, hoofden van laboratoria en hoofden van instellingen melden
infectieziekten aan de GGD. Deze geeft de gegevens geanonimiseerd door
aan het Centrum Infectieziektebestrijding van het Rijksinstituut voor
Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM).
De GGD gebruikt de informatie om bestrijdingsmaatregelen te kunnen
nemen, om de bron op te sporen en de mensen te waarschuwen die in
contact zijn geweest met een ziek of mogelijk geïnfecteerde persoon.
Bovendien kunnen geneesmiddelen preventief worden toegediend en
hygiëneadviezen worden gegeven. Indien nodig kan de burgemeester of, in
bijzondere gevallen de minister van VWS, dwingende maatregelen opleggen.
Het RIVM gebruikt de informatie voor dagelijkse monitoring
(surveillance), voor het beoordelen van de effectiviteit van vaccinaties
en voor het tijdig signaleren van landelijke dreigingen of epidemieën.
In bijzondere gevallen waarbij de kans bestaat dat de ziekte
internationaal wordt verspreid, waarschuwt het RIVM de WHO.

klik hier voor overzicht

Naar het vademecum:
http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/215072001.html.
Naar meer informatie over de Wet publieke gezondheid:
http://www.rivm.nl/wetpg.
Naar het dossier van VWS:
http://www.minvws.nl/dossiers/infectieziekten/wet-publieke-gezondheid/default.asp