Clean Care is Safer Care

Information sharing

Are hand hygiene initiatives ongoing at your health-care facility? Have you created an Action Plan? Has hand hygiene improved at your facility? Have your hand hygiene improvements reduced health care-associated infection?

Please share your experiences and expertise with us. Your experiences could help other health-care workers across the world improve hand hygiene and save lives.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety team would be delighted to learn of the hand hygiene initiatives at your health-care facility, whatever your starting point.

Case studies

Use our online form to submit a case study which will be made available on this website. Read case studies from around the world.

The information contained in the case study section is provided by individual health-care facilities. The World Health Organization (WHO) does not warrant that this information is complete and correct, and shall not be liable whatsoever for any damages incurred as a result of its use. WHO does not endorse the content or any recommendations listed therein.

Submit a video!

Be creative! Make a documentary, film your colleagues performing good hand hygiene, take us on a tour of your health-care facility… For ideas, visit the WHO YouTube channel

Key documents

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WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (revised Aug 2009)

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Guide to implementation of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy (revised Aug 2009)

Videos

Contact us

For more information about Clean Care is Safer Care, please contact the team at savelives@who.int.