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Update to Hand Hygiene: Skin care literature review and recommendations

15 Dec 2023

The Hand Hygiene: Skin care literature review has been updated using the two-person methodology as described in the NIPCM Development Process.

This contains an update to Section 1.2 of the NIPCM and Section 2 of the Care Home Infection Prevention and Control Manual advising that barrier creams should not be used in the workplace.