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On 13 October 2005, the Minister for Health and Community Care took part in the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Patient Safety Challenge �Clean Care is Safer Care�. At the event, the Minister pledged to continue the work of the Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Task Force for a further two years and to launch a national hand hygiene campaign involving NHSScotland and the general public.
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) has been asked on behalf of the HAI Task Force to oversee the development and delivery of this national hand hygiene campaign. The objective of the campaign is to reduce avoidable illness amongst patients, staff and the general public by improving hand hygiene practice.
The campaign is governed by a Steering Board which meets on a monthly basis and is chaired by Tim Brett, Director of HPS. The campaign has two key elements:
� A public media campaign which is due to launch towards the end of January 2007 and will run for around 4-6 weeks.
� An awareness-raising campaign aimed at NHS Staff, patients and visitors to NHS Healthcare settings which will launch alongside the public campaign run until March 2008.
Both elements of the campaign aim to achieve a sustainable change in culture in relation to hand hygiene practice.
To facilitate the implementation of the campaign within local NHS Boards, funding will be provided to each NHS Board to employ a Local Health Board Co-ordinator (LHBC) until the end
of March 2008.
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