The campaign was launched with the publication of the NPSA Patient Safety Alert in September 2004, which instructed acute NHS trusts to provide alcohol handrub at the point of care and invited them to participate in the cleanyourhands campaign. Since then the campaign has been extended to NHS primary care, ambulance, mental health and care trusts and the NPSA Patient Safety Alert has been updated and reissued (September 2008) to all trusts.
In 2010 cleanyourhands will move away from a central campaign model and move towards a program approach which will encourage local ownership of hand hygiene improvement and sustainability. cleanyourhands will work with the NHS to ensure current best practice and that the Five Moments for hand hygiene are implemented and understood at local level.
