Posted on: 5 May 2021
The ‘Save Lives Clean Your Hands’ global campaign, launched in 2009 and celebrated annually on 5 May (World Hand Hygiene Day) aims to maintain global promotion, visibility and sustainability of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement around the world.
Our Chief Nurse, Maria O’Brien said:
“It’s so important that we practise effective hand hygiene to stop the transmission of infectious diseases like flu and Covid-19. It only takes 20 seconds. Save lives, clean your hands.”
Hand hygiene has always been important but is taking on extra significance throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Government guidelines have advised people to wash their hands for 20 seconds – about the same time it would take to sing “happy birthday” twice over.
This got us thinking about other things we do in our lives that also take 20 seconds to complete, and we ran a competition asking our members of staff to send in a short video performing their chosen activity to remind people how easy it is and the little time it takes to regularly wash our hands and maintain good hand hygiene. A prize will be given to the most innovative entry.
Watch all submissions, compiled into one video, below.
The winning entry belongs to our Mental Health Team at Northwick Park, who managed to fold their bikes within 20 seconds! The team will be awarded a £20 voucher.
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