A campaign to highlight the importance of infection prevention is to be launched across all Sirona services during Infection Prevention and Control Week.
The aim is for zero tolerance of preventable infections, say bosses at Sirona care and health which provides community health and adult social care across Bath and North East Somerset.
Denise Meyers, Sirona’s infection prevention and control nurse, said: “Infection prevention and control week is a good time to reinforce the message about hand washing both internally and to the public, we are looking more towards prevention than control.
“Improving Hand Hygiene by healthcare workers, and personal carers, will save lives. The public can help us by doing their bit by thorough and regular hand washing when visiting sick relatives.
“Not only is good hand hygiene important but also respiratory precautions – if you sneeze, catch it, bin it, kill it.
“We work with the most vulnerable service users including children, the elderly and those whose systems are not able to fight infection as well as you or I, which is why it’s important that people do not visit their relatives in our hospitals if they are unwell or if they have had any diarrhoea and vomiting in the last 48 hours.”
Posters and information about Norovirus, and influenza will be distributed to all community resource centres and hospitals in addition to information reinforcing the importance of good hand hygiene.
All information will be sent out in time for Infection prevention and Control Week which runs from 21st to 26th October.
Sirona provides all staff with free influenza vaccines not only to help protect themselves but to prevent the spread of infection to their vulnerable clients and families
If you would like any information to display in your work area please contact Elizabeth Heenan-Ching via email [email protected] or on 01225 831679.
