WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, global annual campaign

Five Steps to 5 May 2012!  - ‘What's YOUR plan?’

Building on three years of this successful global annual campaign, and to ensure you can have the greatest impact on 5 May 2012, WHO encourages you to make targeted plans for sustained hand hygiene improvement based on your facility's WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework results. The team at WHO has outlined activities you can undertake from now until then and WHO will provide template action plans soon:
 

• January – What's YOUR Plan: have you used the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework (HHSAF) to know how your facility is progressing with hand hygiene improvement? If not, use it now as the focus for 5 May is on YOUR Plans, based on your HHSAF results! http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/hhsa_framework/en/index.html


• February – What's YOUR Plan: Have you carefully analysed your own WHO HHSAF results? Based on these results, it's now time to plan your actions to improve and sustain hand hygiene! Use the WHO Targeted Action Plan Templates that will be provided to guide YOUR plans!


• March – What's YOUR Plan: Have you made YOUR facility's plan? Are you discussing and engaging with other key players for success and who can help with your action plan to ensure success? Identify at least one or more actions that can be accomplished by or on 5 May 2012 to show YOUR facility's commitment to improving hand hygiene!


• April – What's YOUR Plan: Is your targeted plan ready for use now, is everyone engaged in supporting its success? If yes, place your Action Plan on your web pages and share the web site address with savelives@who.int so it can feature on WHO web pages. Are you ready for YOUR 5 May activities/celebrations focused on one or more selected actions from your plan?


• May – What's YOUR Plan: Celebrate on 5 or 7 May! Involve staff and the facility's leadership in your selected action(s) and/or report their results! If you haven't yet, issue YOUR targeted Action Plan, and progress your facility's hand hygiene improvement now, sharing your web page link featuring your plans with WHO to be featured on their pages.

Thank you for your ongoing commitment and support to WHO for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands.
 
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