{"id":403540,"date":"2026-04-29T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/403540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:56:00","slug":"5-may-world-hand-hygiene-day-action-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/403540\/","title":{"rendered":"5 May World Hand Hygiene Day: Action saves lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">For World Hand Hygiene Day 2026, WHO calls on all those providing and supporting health care to refresh their action on hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC), to ensure patient and health worker safety.<\/p>\n<p>A substantial proportion of avoidable infections acquired during health care delivery could be prevented if hand hygiene and IPC action were taken at the correct times. Such action provides a high return on investment within health system expenditure and a significant positive effect on health outcomes for countries.<\/p>\n<p>This session aims to\u00a0highlight the importance of taking action to improve hand hygiene\u00a0and IPC\u00a0in health care and examples of global advancement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OBJECTIVES:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To promote inclusion of hand hygiene\u00a0within national IPC action plans, as well as\u00a0standard operating procedures at facility levelTo raise awareness\u00a0about the\u00a0WHO\u00a0global action plan and monitoring framework\u00a0indicator\u00a0on hand hygiene compliance monitoring and feedbackTo highlight examples of IPC and hand hygiene improvements and encourage country action.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; \u00a0 For World Hand Hygiene Day 2026, WHO calls on all those providing and supporting health care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-403540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}