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Briony Wilkinson 28.09.2026

Hand Hygiene audit

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to ask a couple of questions about Hand hygiene audits –

– how do other community IPC teams manage to get community services to complete their hand hygiene audits? i.e do IPC champions do this or the IPC team themselves?
– Frequency of completing the audits?

Thanks in advance

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Tanya Shaw 02.11.2026

Morning Briony,
We are an IPC Team in a local authority to primarily work with care homes and other adults social care settings. The care homes have a nominated IPC Care Champion and either the manager or they complete the hand hygiene audit. We recently did a project where we went out the local authority care homes unannounced and did a revalidation hand hygiene audit and the scores were very different as you can imagine. Targeting some work around this now. Let me know if you need any more information as happy to share my email.
Thanks, Tanya.

Helen Wilcox 04.11.2026

Hi Briony, I have just logged in to post a similar question! We ask, as an NHS trust, for staff to complete a self-assessment x3 per year, plus x1 peer assessment, This approach needs reviewing as does not provide assurance. Have you come u with any solutions? Thanks Helen