Guidance cards explaining how staff should wash their hands have been sent to healthcare providers across the UK.
The guidance was produced by the National Patient Safety Agency, NHS Scotland, Northern Ireland's Department of Health and the Infection Prevention Society for infection control week, from 20-24 October.
See the NPSA's recent alert on the subject at www.npsa.nhs.uk
A private hospital group has been fined £300,000 after a 14-year-old NHS-funded patient died in its care.
Publication of nurse staffing levels at each hospital in England – introduced after the Francis Inquiry to boost safety – has been quietly dropped, HSJ can reveal.
A major London teaching trust has accelerated a trust-wide training programme after reporting seven never events in its financial year to date, including two in one month.
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