Tools and resources

The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety team has provided a suite of tools to support health-care facilities to prepare effective Action Plans to improve hand hygiene, regardless of their starting point

Requirements for support to address the 5 components are likely to vary between health-care facilities. You are encouraged to read the Guide to Implementation of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy (can be found at the bottom of the right column). This is a key tool that provides comprehensive advice on how to develop an effective hand hygiene improvement Action Plan and how to use the other tools. This tool will help you to ascertain which other supporting tools will be most relevant to your health-care facility.

Tools for system change Tools for training and education Tools for evaluation and feedback

Tools as reminders in the workplace Tools for institutional safety climate