Welcome to Scotland’s National Hand Hygiene Campaign. The campaign has now entered its second phase and is due to run until March 2011. Its main aims are:
In addition to this a public media campaign was launched in January 2009, with a professional campaign being launched in March 2009.
This website contains details of both this current phase of the campaign, and also the previous phase of the campaign, which ran from January 2007 until March 2008. These will be referred to as campaign phases 1 and 2 throughout the website.
Both phases of the campaign have been developed in conjunction with the Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Task Force within the Scottish Government Health Directorate. The HAI Task Force, led by the Chief Medical Officer, was established in 2003 and is responsible for tackling HAI through a comprehensive, coherent, wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary approach.
In a wider international context, the National Hand Hygiene Campaign has liaised with the World Health Organisation’s first Global Patient Safety Challenge, and their permission for allowing our materials to be based on their 5 key moments is gratefully acknowledged. Clean Care is Safer Care recognises the key role that hand hygiene plays in tackling healthcare associated infections.