Shows the dirt
August 1st 2007 Using specialist equipment, staff and visitors to Swansea hospitals will see for themselves clear evidence of why they may need to improve their hand cleaning. Trained teams are on the wards with special Glo-Germ boxes from Deb which highlight with startling clarity patches on people's hands which have not been washed properly. Dirty areas, which may look clean to the naked eye, glow luminously under the boxes' ultra-violet lights. Delyth Davies, Swansea NHS Trust's lead infection control nurse, comments "People are often quite shocked when they used one of these boxes and see the visual evidence of what parts of their hands haven't been cleaned. Most infections are transmitted on the hands, so anything which helps to reinforce proper hand hygiene is really important. Davies continues "Other methods of infection control, like gloves, changing aprons and specialist ventilation systems all help, but hand hygiene is absolutely pivotal." Deb donated the Glo-Germ boxes to the Trust to help launch the Hand Hygiene Trainers project. More articles from Deb Limited: | 
