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
Dozens of patients including children have now been admitted to hospital because of the national shortage of intravenous food supplies for patients who cannot eat normal food, HSJ has learned.
The Care Quality Commission has increased the number of criminal prosecutions of health and social care providers by more than 32 per cent in a year.
A trust whose capital bid to improve its maternity services has been repeatedly turned down by government has been told by the Care Quality Commission to make urgent improvements to the obstetrics department after an inspection prompted by three serious incidents.
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