Cleanliness Champions Introduction

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Do you:

• Want to deliver gold-standard care to your patients?
• Want to ensure you keep patients safe from the hazards of infection?
• Want to know you are playing your part in delivering the NHS Scotland healthcare associated infection agenda?
• Want to increase your own skills and knowledge in relation to infection prevention and control?
• Want to develop your abilities as a role model?

If your answer to these questions is "yes", then you're in the right place.

Welcome to this programme on: Promoting the Prevention and Control of Infection through Cleanliness Champions.

Promoting the prevention and control of infection is a key concern for health services in Scotland. At any one time, over 10% of patients in NHS Scotland hospitals will have a healthcare associated infection (HAI), and sick and vulnerable patients in the community are also at risk. 

Taken together, this amounts to significant human and financial costs. HAI complicates recovery from illness and trauma, extends hospital stays, delays return to normal activity and increases stress on patients, families and carers. In financial terms, HAI costs the NHS over £1 billion per year.

This programme, which is also available as a printed version, has been designed to offer you a flexible way to learn about becoming a Cleanliness Champion.

The learning materials are aimed primarily at workers who will be taking on the role of Cleanliness Champion in hospitals and community settings. But infection prevention and control is everybody's business, so it will be of interest to others, including healthcare students.  

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