Hand Hygiene

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Dear Sir/Madame

I am a Lecturer with the University of Nottingham. I am an ex infection control nurse currently undertaking a PhD. As part of my study I am reviewing all Acute, PCT and Mental Health hand hygiene policies in NHS trusts in England. Many trusts post these on the internet and I have been able to locate about a third. Your trust is not one of them. Therefore I would like to make a request for your organisations most recent hand hygiene policy.

Kind Regards
Mark Cole

Mew John (5PT) Suffolk PCT, Suffolk Primary Care Trust (PCT)

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Dear Mr Cole

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Our hand hygiene policy is contained within our Infection Control manual
(Section 3.2). As you say, the manual is not yet posted on the NHS Suffolk
public website. It is however on the Suffolk extranet site, which is a
public site, though the target audience is members of the Suffolk health
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