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October 20, 2009

Hand hygiene at SMH

Filed under: In the News — tgk1946 @ 6:19 am

Annette Pantle, of the Clinical Excellence Commission, said poor hand hygiene was a worldwide problem. http://bit.ly/uQMzx

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It’s all very well to berate busy doctors for their poor hand hygiene, but there is a very high-profile nurse who is in flagrant breach of basic standards. She has been seen at work numerous times on national broadcasts, in the company of no less than the chief medical officer and the Minister for Health.

She is the woman with extraordinarily long artificial fingernails who is injecting a vaccine in the campaigns promoting the influenza H1N1 vaccine.

The Age..Doctors lag on hand hygiene, study finds

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