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http://www.who.int/infection-prevention/campaigns/clean-hands/en/
www.gojo.com/WHO-May-5 from mid-April.
CARE SECTOR STAFFING CHALLENGES
CAUSE SURGE IN TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION UK residential care homes are facing increasing challenges as staff shortages make planning and managing rosters almost impossible.
According to workforce management app Deputy, its healthcare customers, including more than 20,000 workers in UK residential care homes, have increased their rostered hours by 230% year on year between February 2020 and 2021. At the same time, advanced planning of shiſts has become much more erratic, reducing from an average of 18-20 days to 12-14 days.
In these turbulent times, staff rotas have become unpredictable.
Over the past 12 months, Deputy has been brought on board for more than 20,000 residential care workers across the UK, as more and more care homes turn to scheduling soſtware to take the pain out of managing unpredictable staff rotas and last-minute changes.
Aspen Hill Village care home in Leeds has 242 staff and accomodates up to 180 residents. It’s part of a group of five care homes operated by Armighorn Capital, which is run by Navjot Singh and his partner Shahzada Ahmed.
Navjot said: “We’re passionate about ensuring we provide care to the very highest standard. When you’re dealing with different issues across the business, it’s very disruptive to be tied up doing admin tasks the old-fashioned way. On
GOJO INDUSTRIES-EUROPE LTD SUPPORTS ‘SAVE LIVES: CLEAN
YOUR HANDS’ CAMPAIGN Skin health and surface hygiene expert GOJO Industries-Europe is once again supporting the World Health Organization (WHO)’s annual ‘SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands’ campaign.
The worldwide advocacy day falls on 5th May, and this year it
is focused on achieving appropriate hand hygiene action at the point of care. Its ‘seconds save lives – clean your hands!’ slogan reinforces the message that taking a little extra time to practise hand hygiene makes all the difference.
To achieve this, healthcare workers should have access to good-quality, alcohol-based hand rub products, clean water, soap, single-use towels and an adequate number of functioning sinks within patient zones. This enables hand hygiene practise at the five key moments: before touching a patient, before clean/aseptic procedures, aſter body fluid exposure/risk, aſter touching a patient, and aſter touching a patient’s surroundings.
2021 has also been designated as the ‘International Year of Health and Care Workers’, so focusing on their protection is just as crucial. The PURELL brand’s focus on ‘formulation without compromise’ means that products in the range
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timesheet inaccuracies alone, Deputy saves us between £2,000-£5,000 each month.”
David Kelly, General Manager for EMEA at Deputy, said: “With fluctuating levels of demand and many staff being unavailable to work, we’ve seen a sharp rise in care homes using soſtware to manage their workforce in a much more agile and structured way. For example, if someone calls in sick, a manager can find a replacement quickly. Our app advertises available shiſts instantly to all qualified staff who are not already due to be working and also offers a shiſt swapping feature, which reduces the need for expensive agency cover.”
Deputy keeps track of staff attendance and ratios, making it easier to meet CQC audit requirements and also integrates accurate timesheets directly into the payroll, reducing costly errors and admin.
www.deputy.com
have been proven to maintain skin health and have high antimicrobial efficacy. In fact, in scientific tests, PURELL Advanced Hygienic Hand Rub was found to kill 99.99% of the most common germs that may be harmful, including Coronavirus, with a contact time of just 30 seconds.
Chris Wakefield, Managing Director UK & Ireland at GOJO Industries-Europe Ltd, commented: “We hope that this year’s campaign encourages everyone to do their part, as it takes commitment from all for hand hygiene programmes to be successful.
“As well as healthcare workers cleaning their hands, IPC practitioners need to continue mentoring and championing the act, facilities managers must ensure that supplies are available at every point of care, and policy makers should invest now to enable hand hygiene for all. Everyone, the general public included, must make clean hands a habit. It protects us all.”
Backed by a wealth of scientific expertise, and specialist formulations, GOJO has the technology and experience to work in partnership with healthcare managers to implement effective hand and surface hygiene regimes, and promote hygienic and compliant hand hygiene behaviour.
Assets, such as posters and product placement guides, are available to download from GOJO’s dedicated ‘Hand Hygiene Day’ page.
Free advocacy toolkits to support the WHO Save Lives: Clean Your Hands campaign are available on the WHO website:
WHO invites everyone to use the hashtags #CleanYourHands #HandHygiene #InfectionPrevention on social media to ensure Save Lives: Clean Your Hands posts are picked up by the campaign.
www.GOJO.com
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