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The World Health Organisation’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands day on 5 May, 2013 is part of a major global effort to support healthcare workers to improve hand hygiene in healthcare. Sharon Evans, Lead Infection Prevention and Control Nurse for Hywel Dda Health Board, “The most common way germs are spread is by people's hands and these germs can cause illnesses such as colds, flu and stomach bugs. “Most healthcare associated infections are preventable through good hand hygiene – cleaning hands at the right times and in the right way. “Proper hand washing with soap and warm water is the single most important thing you can do to help reduce the spread of infections and help protect you, your family and those around you. “Hand hygiene is not only important for healthcare staff but also for patients and visitors. “When visiting a friend or relative in hospital or any environment where healthcare is provided, it is important to ensure that you clean your hands by cleaning them with bot...

Hywel Dda Health Board | Wales achieves most new registrations in SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign The World Health Organization (WHO) has commended Wales for signing up more hospitals and healthcare facilities in the run up to this year’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands annual event than any other country or area in the world. The international campaign encourages healthcare professionals to register to show their commitment to raising awareness of the part hand hygiene can play in reducing rates of healthcare associated infections. Public Health Wales has been thanked for its work in encouraging healthcare organisations to sign up for the campaign, which is now in its fourth year.